RE: why rpg and not cobol -- RPG400-L

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"Mr. Chambers! Mr. Chambers!! It's, it's a..... COOKBOOK!!"

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From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Vernon Hamberg
Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2013 1:09 PM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)
Subject: Re: why rpg and not cobol

Ah -- that goes back to Damon Knight's story, "To Serve Man" - was also on
Twilight Zone.

On 4/18/2013 3:01 PM, Marvin Radding wrote:

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message: 2
date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 14:39:04 -0500
from: Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: why rpg and not cobol

Probably a human-eatable language!

On 4/18/2013 2:32 PM, Jeff Young wrote:

What language was HAL programmed in?
That is the next wave!

Or a cook book language?

Thanks,

Marvin

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