did anyone ever program in RPG?

[BobVA]

(07-02-2015 07:27 PM)Duane Hess Wrote:  ...A former student offered me a limited-term, part-time (weekend) job writing RPG-II on a System/36 (S/34 upgrade) for some "catch-up" programs their company wanted. Basic database extract/report & data entry appliations.
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Man, haven't thought about all that in years!

I had a similar experience; one of my professors had been called by a local bank looking for a hungry student to fill the same type gig.

The hardware was a TI-990 running DX-10, I think. Nice little mini-computer, but it had a 9-track drive, designed for vertical mounting, installed horizontally. This was a continuing source of entertainment, particularly when loading.

I didn't use RPG, but something vaguely similar called "SORTMRG" which was a "programmable" sort / merge utility, sandwiched between a couple of calculation modules I'd written in FORTRAN IV.

I really miss that 132-column printer and the green-bar paper. *That* was programming :-)