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

["Kevin Lawton" <kepla@btinternet.com>]

Randy McLaughlin <randy@nospam.com> wrote:
| "Charles Richmond" <richmond@ev1.net> wrote in message
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|| Charles Richmond wrote:
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||| Kurt Koller wrote:
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|||| not to throw more water on this out of control grease fire, but
|||| you'd have a hard time making "PONG" in RPG but RPG is still a
|||| programming language.
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||| Perhaps so, but I have a "Star Trek" game written in COBOL...
||| and no, I did *not* write it...
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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".
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|||   Charles and Francis Richmond     richmond at plano dot net   |
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| It is easy to throw rocks at languages we don't like.

But far more entertaining to launch rocket propelled grenades in a role
playing game.   :-)