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

Subject: Re: Low-level vs. High-level programming (was My First Computer)
From: "Chuck Morris" <nospam@nospam.net>
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 05:03:59 GMT
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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. ;-)

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- Computing Editorial (please read)
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