1. RPG & RPN
- Posted by "Wallace B. Riley" <wryly at MINDSPRING.COM>
Jul 30, 1997
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Last edited Jul 31, 1997
I'm new here (new to Euphoria, that is). I'm not new to computers, 35 years
in the business before retiring in the early 1990s, but lately I've found
that I'm out in left field as far as recent developments are concerned.
I just signed up to the Listserv, and found a bunch of messages on my first
day. A couple of them had to do with something called RPG. To me, RPG
refers to a software package distributed by IBM a long time ago. The
initials stood for Report Program Generator, and the software would develop
the format used by other programs to print their output. Now RPG is
apparently some kind of game. I'm really confused.
Oops, just got some more mail, explaining what RPG means. Role Playing
Game. Okay, thanks, whoever sent that in. But this alphabet soup is really
overwhelming.
But BTW (you see, I'm not totally ignorant of the new cyber-initials), the
usual abbreviation for Reverse Polish Notation is RPN, not RPL. RPN is best
known for its use by Hewlett-Packard in its calculators.
Wallace Riley
wryly at mindspring.com
2. Re: RPG & RPN
> I just signed up to the Listserv, and found a bunch of messages on my
first
> day. A couple of them had to do with something called RPG. To me, RPG
> refers to a software package distributed by IBM a long time ago. The
> initials stood for Report Program Generator, and the software would
develop
> the format used by other programs to print their output. Now RPG is
> apparently some kind of game. I'm really confused.
It's both. Report Program Generator (still available as a compiler language
on the IBM AS/400 and RS/6000 family as RPG/400) and Role Playing Game both
use the intials RPG. :)
David Gay
"A Beginner's Guide To Euphoria"
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Vista/4346
