On Tue, 29 Oct 2013 16:51:10 +0000 Ivan Winters <iwinters at virginmedia.com> wrote:
> John Culleton said > > > RPG has other meanings such as Report Program Generator. A > > few of us are old enough to have written programs in that > > late and mostly unlamented programming language. As for my > > error I plead age and incipient senility as an excuse. You > > are right of course. > > You and me must be of similar vintages. I studied COBOL and > RPG7 on a course at Control Data in Leeds in early 1983. Last > time I checked wikipedia RPG was still listed and still in > use. It was popular in my day for people who wanted to write a > quick off the shelf programme for a minor project. After all > all you had to do was fill in a few form pages setting out the > structure of the input data, the processing you wanted to > happen to that data and the structure of the output data. > > Ivan Winters > -------------- next part -------------- > My work as a programmer began in 1968 on an IBM 360/40, using COBOL. RPG was the language of choice on the 1401, the 360-20 and later on the AS400. It was designed to be easily understood by those who started out on IBM EAM (Electronic Accounting Machines.) I finally found myself condemned to using RPG the language when I retired from Federal Service and went to work in a State of Maryland AS 400 shop in about 1986 or so. They had a COBOL compiler but I was the only one that used it. Going back to the original topic I found that my favorite non-LSI and non-Createspace printer, 360 Digital Books, would accept PDF/X-3 but still preferred PDF X/1a. So I will still use my trick of over-saturating photos on gimp first to make them colorful enough on Scribus CMYK output. -- John Culleton Wexford Press Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html PDF e-book: "Create Book Covers with Scribus" available at http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html
