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Me and a friend went to a programming class ages ago that was teaching AS/400 and programming in RPG/400 on them. That was a funny language. I was working at th

by Moru 11y ago

Me and a friend went to a programming class ages ago that was teaching AS/400 and programming in RPG/400 on them. That was a funny language. I was working at the state for a bit too, doing smaller programs for the database of inhabitants. Some of the bigger industries had a few AS/400 too but never got a job there programming.

mindcrime 11y ago
Yeah, this same college started teaching RPG around the same time all this happened. I took two semesters of RPG programming, but I've never used it for anything in the real world. RPG, at least back then, didn't suit me. It was very much column oriented, with this oddball tool (SEU - Source Entry Utility) that you had to program in. I understand the ILE version(s) of RPG have gone to more of a free-form format, but back then it was a royal pain.
- Moru 11y ago
  No, wasn't my favourite programming language but at least it worked :-)
- GnarfGnarf 11y ago
  RPG is "Repulsive Programming Garbage". It is the worst production programming language ever conceived. It was designed in the 60's based on the IBM 402 tabulator paradigm, to bridge programmers from plugboard wiring, to the 360 stored-program mode. It has long outlived its usefulness. Yet it lives on, entrenched in legions of schlubs who, like Bre'r Rabbit, have never known anything else.