did anyone ever program in RPG?

[Don Shepherd]

(01-02-2018 07:42 PM)larthurl Wrote:  

(07-03-2015 01:55 PM)Don Shepherd Wrote:  Well, I'm old-fashioned, in addition to being just "old." I cut my programming teeth in the 1970's on procedural programming languages like FORTRAN and COBOL and BASIC. Years ago I setup my own website that includes links to all of my favorite places. It's just a simple text file I update occasionally with Notepad when my favorites change. I don't consider that real "programming" and I don't consider people who maintain simple html files "programmers."

If you write "IF....THEN....ELSE...." then you are a programmer.

If you write

<td><a href=http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/><font size = 7>Internet speed</font></a></td>

then you are not a programmer.

That's just my opinion.

Interesting discussion, Don.

So in 1976 when I learned how to program on an HP-65, using flags, if-thens and comparisons, etc.
was I a programmer?

Btw, in 1977 I got a job with a time sharing company (Service Bureau, part of CDC).
In that job, I wrote programs in BASIC (for the the IBM370/158) to allow customer's data to be input to our proprietary system and the reporting, forecasting and analysis applications.

Fun days.

.....Art

Art, you are most definitely a programmer! I love the HP-65.

Don