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RPG Maintenance

RPG
KindProgramming language
Appeared1959
StatusMaintenance
CreatorIBM
FamilyRPG
Also known asRPG IV, Report Program Generator
Sourcewww.ibm.com ↗

IBM's punched-card-era report language — fixed-column program logic so rigid it outlived the punch card; still running under IBM i today.

Created by IBM

IBM's RPG (1959) — Report Program Generator — encoded the punched-card tabulating cycle as a programming model: read, calculate, print, in fixed-form columns.\n\nRPG IV (ILE RPG) still runs on IBM i; the 360-era fixed-column format persists in billions of lines of midrange business code.

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Sources

  1. ibm.com/docs/en/i
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_RPG