Re: Low-level vs. High-level programming (was My First Computer)

["Randy McLaughlin" <randy@nospam.com>]

"Chuck Morris" <nospam@nospam.net> wrote in message
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> Charles Richmond <richmond@ev1.net> wrote in message
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> > Besides, RPG *is* a programming language, but it is a poor
> > excuse for a programming language IMHO. It is *not* a procedural
> > programming language. Most folks now think that RPG means
> > "role playing game"...or "rocket propelled grenade".
>
> RPG was probably the most bizarre programming language that I ever
learned,
> at least in it's earlier versions.  Being designed for producing reports
> (Report Program Generator aka RPG), it had a fixed logic cycle that you
had
> to work within to produce the result you wanted.  In one sense it was
> procedural, but only in the sense that it had procedures that it was
> determined to follow, regardless of any ideas you might have to the
> contrary. ;-)

There are lots of strange (and weird) computer programming languages, most
all of these languages are history, RPG and others that had big enough
support (IBM in the 60's and 70's is as strong as it got) continue to be
used in one way or another.

Look at LOGO, a non computational computer programming language that was
little more than a toy (the same basic language was written into some toys).