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Whew! I was concerned there for a moment. I thought this was the "Report Program Generator" language, one of the more odious inventions in IT.
by GnarfGnarf 4y ago
Whew! I was concerned there for a moment. I thought this was the "Report Program Generator" language, one of the more odious inventions in IT.
- nazgulsenpai 4y agoIn 3rd grade at my school library there was a book called something like 20 Computer Games that was just pages filled with BASIC programs you had to type out. I assume now it was for Commodore 64, which I didn't have and was already obsolete, but I was able to convert a lot of those games to QBasic and had a blast with it. Imagine how happy I was when I saw a book about my favorite game genre at our city library, RPG Programming! That was rather disappointing.
- newobj 4y agoLOL. I had the exact same experience w the RPG book in my public library when I was a kid
- mncharity 4y agoI too was momentarily astray... and then became curious. There's a 2022 What's New [1] for... err... ILE RPG in IBM i 7.5 ? Aka RPG IV Technology Release 7 ? Aka... sigh. The current state of RPG. It includes: new operation code DATA-GEN generates a structured document, such as JSON or CSV, from an RPG variable; the OVERLOAD keyword is used in a call operation, the compiler uses the parameters that are specified for the call to determine which of the candidate prototypes to call; ... . Current language reference[2]. If there's a modern open source compiler, I didn't quickly find it. [1] https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.5?topic=wn-whats-new-in-75-1 https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.5?topic=wn-whats-new-in-75-1 [2] https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.5?topic=languages-rpg https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.5?topic=languages-rpg
- zuminator 4y agoDon't beat yourself up, I was thinking it was going to be about DIY antitank grenade launchers.
- Moru 4y agoMe too! We had RPG lessons in school.