did anyone ever program in RPG?

[Don Shepherd]

(07-03-2015 07:36 PM)BobVA Wrote:  I really miss that 132-column printer and the green-bar paper. *That* was programming :-)

Me too.

One time I made a one-line change in a COBOL program, compiled the new version and got like 1000 error messages (I'm probably exaggerating a bit). I went to the systems guy and accused him of loading a new COBOL compiler on the system without testing it first, because how could a one-line change cause so many errors. He dismissed me, rightfully so it turned out.

I had unknowingly deleted a period at the end of one of the COBOL division lines.

I apologized. He laughed. Those were the days.

Another time we had a deadline to complete a program on Friday. We were not anywhere near done on Friday afternoon, so my partner and I stayed all night Friday night, all day Saturday and Saturday night, about half the day on Sunday, finishing Sunday afternoon when we finally went home. But we could status the program as complete on Monday morning.

I have to wonder if programmers do that kind of thing today. I suspect not.