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Re: RPG & RPN

• Posted by David Alan Gay <moggie at INTERLOG.COM> Jul 31, 1997
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> 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"
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