Re: What do you call the new freeform RPG? (Kurt Anderson) -- RPG400-L

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Subject: Re: What do you call the new freeform RPG? (Kurt Anderson)
From: Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 14:15:53 -0500
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And HTML is still HTML. As it should be. If IBM wanted to go mainstream, RPG Free-form could easily be RPG 5.0 and rank, medernity-wise, with HTML 5.0. Solves the "legacy" problem with a snap of the fingers.

On 4/18/2014 1:47 PM, Gerald Kern wrote:

At the end of the day (to me) it's still RPG. If a programmer chooses to
ignore how it's evolved over the last twenty years then it really doesn't
make a difference what I call it since they are the ones who are ignoring
what the language brings to the table.

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