Re: why rpg and not cobol

The "luggable" indeed. When I first started with IBM I used to lug one home
pretty much every evening while writing a BASIC program to play chess on
the 5100. Found out the hard way that the BASIC subroutine stack had a
limit of 25 levels...


On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 7:30 AM, nhdennis@xxxxxxxxxxx
<nhdennis@xxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

IIRC the 5100 was the first 'luggable', it initially ran basic.

Norm Dennis


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From: "Vernon Hamberg" <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "RPG programming on the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)" <
rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: why rpg and not cobol
Date: Sun, Apr 14, 2013 13:37


Jim

I wasn't working on computers then - started in 1989, on the AS/400 and
a little on the 38.

Vern

On 4/13/2013 1:39 PM, Horn, Jim wrote:

Vern - did you ever work on the IBM 5100 portable computer? Had an APL
option. Sold one once to company that designed BIG power poles.

Probably

in 1976.

Jim


message: 2
date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 17:00:41 -0400 (EDT)
from: Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: why rpg and not cobol

Oh how can that be! C has NoThInG like all those "interesting" symbols.

I worked for a year as a contractor at IBM in Rochester. At the

interview,

there were about 4 people. One asked me if I knew about APL. I said,

"That

turkey!" Well, all I really knew was, there are fonts on the iSeries

called

APL-something.

It was a trap - the guy I'd be working under just LOVED APL. It's a good
thing he could be even more irascible than I, without being as

politically

ignorant as I.

I survived that - and was testing stuff in the "new" query engine, which

it

was never called in the wild, bad connotations and all that!

Vern

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