> > >supposedly difficult for the opposite gender. So first they asked the
> > >girls what an RPG was.. not a clue. The guys couldn't guess either.
>Both
> > >thought it to be a computing term.
>Yeah, it's a Report and Plan Generator[1] language for main frames. Not
>exactly a current term.
"Report Program Generator" I think - if I rememeber correctly from that
college class I took in >1982<! WHAT a mess. A very cantankerous
"language" whose sole purpose was to output a flat data file into columnar
format. Rather than using "statements" I vaguely remember that it used "x"s
and various OTHER keyletters in precise columns on 80 column punched cards
to format the data AND to perform rudimentary calculations. I believe it
ran on Honeywell systems.
Definitely NOT a "higher level" language - I could have done the tasks IN
ASSEMBLER with more ease than this dog allowed.
This was the only computer class I ever took that I did not ace, and I in
fact withdrew from the class after 5 weeks. I believe my rationale was:
"If anybody ever asks me to actually PROGRAM in this
language, I want to be able to say 'never heard of it'..."
Faust
_________________________________________________________________________
Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at
http://profiles.msn.com.
-------------
For more information, please link to www.opengamingfoundation.org
