Modernizing RPG Programs – Learn the RPG History first I had email email from an old work colleague this morning. He was a windows programmer, with limited exposure to RPG, but works in a company that is driven by a huge, old, complex RPG3 application that has changed little over the last decade. He is

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Since the introduction of the latest Service Pack for IBM i V7 — cunningly entitled ‘Technology Release 7.1 — RPG programmers can now finally eschew the old fixed column coding and roam around a modern free format language. RPG is free. Finally. Lovely jubbly. Long overdue and in the words of Jon Paris (RPG Guru

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*RPG – NO, RPG Developer doesnt mean that I write Role Playing Games, primarily aimed at men in basements pretending they are fit young elven women and running around casting spells 😉 So, as an RPG* Developer I am definitely biased towards IBM’s best and most versatile language. IBM RPG has evolved massively from the

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