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  3. April 2013

Re: why rpg and not cobol

Do I hear someone calling out APL? Yeah, often called a "write-only" language!

:)

On 4/11/2013 3:55 PM, John Yeung wrote:
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 2:55 PM, Mark S Waterbury
<mark.s.waterbury@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi, John:

Idon't know what "murky" definitions you are referring to.
-snip-

There are languages that require very little code (extremely powerful per line of code), yet are incredibly difficult for most *programmers* to work with, never mind being accessible to nonprogrammers (ease and accessibility being some of the oft-cited goals of 4GL or 5GL).

-snip-

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