[Info-vax] DIBOL-11

[Scott Dorsey]

bill  <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>Having no experience with the PDP-8 I didn't know DIBOL started there.
>My first DIBOL was DIBOL-11.  Maybe I had it backwards and it was RPG
>that came out as an answer to DIBOL.

The original RPG wasn't really a programming language, just a database
report system.  It wasn't Turing-complete; you could not write a sort 
or a number guess program in it.

RPG II had a lot of cool stuff in it that the original RPG did not have,
and it was a real programming language, but it was once again a programming
language that started out as a database report generator.

DIBOL is something different... it took a lot of concepts from COBOL such
as the I/O management but it ditched the horrible COBOL syntax for a modern
more Algol-style syntax.
--scott


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