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My first job was at a large casino as a systems analyst. The casino switched CMS software and went to an AS400 RPG based application named ACSC. I took it upon
by lowken10 10y ago
My first job was at a large casino as a systems analyst. The casino switched CMS software and went to an AS400 RPG based application named ACSC. I took it upon myself to learn the database of the application and also to learn RPG programming (shudder).
This lead to my first software development position at a large international bank.
I worked as an RPG developer for three years then I pivoted to SQL Server/C#.
So yes knowing a not so famous language benefited me.
- 4e1a 10y agoRPG LOL. Me too.
- biot 10y agoYou're being downvoted, but the original uncorrected title was "Ask HN: Did knowing /learning a not-so-famous language benefited you?" (copied and pasted from browser cache) and didn't have the caveat that this was not a programming question. So have an upvote for an interesting story in the spirit of the original question.