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RE: What do you call the new freeform RPG?

Ah, fond memories. I wonder if LinkedIn has an RPG Old Gits' group? ;-)

Trevor Briggs
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From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dave Shaw
Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2014 8:53 AM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)
Subject: RE: What do you call the new freeform RPG?

Paul's RPG/Free had a macro expansion capability that could be used to provide a form of free format for non-calc specs. Took some thought, though.

FLEX/Edit for DOS and OS/2 was based on a commercial programming editor of the day, I can't remember which one. It supported RPG II, III, and the /free precompiler; maybe COBOL, too. Flex/Edit for Windows came later, was based on the CodeWright editor

-----Original Message-----
From: "Jon Paris" <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: ‎4/‎23/‎2014 7:16 AM
To: "RPG programming on the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)" <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: What do you call the new freeform RPG?

Someone else may have a better memory than me Jerry - but if I recall correctly what he did was to license and existing text editor and add the syntax checkers etc. for RPG and his free-form flavour.


On 2014-04-22, at 11:46 PM, Jerry C. Adams <midrange@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Paul even had a version for RPG II, though I think Julian Monypenny actually
wrote that version. If I recall correctly (heaven knows at this st/age) I
even wrote an article about it for Midrange Computing. One of the few
things that I remember is that you could define your own tokens. I liked to
define null tokens so that I could code things like:

CHAIN using KEYS to FILEA

Where 'to' and 'using' were null tokens. Verbose, I know.

Paul even had an IDE that ran on the PC that encompassed RPG II/III/Free
syntax. Never got around to writing that article, but it was pretty
revolutionary for its time. Again can't remember the details (this was late
80's or early 90's) but it probably didn't have all of the bells and
whistles of RDp.

Jerry C. Adams
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-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Jon Paris
Sent: Monday, April 21, 2014 7:43 AM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)
Subject: Re: What do you call the new freeform RPG?

Paul Conte had an RPG III pre-compiler that used a form of free format -
can't recall if it went beyond calcs. Came out during the run up to the
announcement of RPG IV.


On 2014-04-21, at 8:13 AM, "Briggs, Trevor (TBriggs2)"
<TBriggs2@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Furthermore, didn't someone come out with a pre-compiler called RPG
FREE before RPG became officially free format?

Trevor Briggs
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Lincare, Inc.
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[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John Yeung
Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2014 5:44 PM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)
Subject: Re: What do you call the new freeform RPG?

On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 5:21 PM, Scott Klement
<rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I also never use the phrase "RPG free". [...] The phrase "RPG free"
sounds too much like "RPG III" and since "RPG free" is not an
official name, you always have to ask for clarification of what it
means.

In addition to that, in this day and age of open source and free
software, "RPG free" sounds like it could either be a watered-down
no-additional-cost version of RPG from IBM/Rational, or a third-party
free reimplementation of RPG (potentially for platforms other than the
i).

John
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