Report Program Generator
RPG-II
<tool> (RPG) An {IBM} programming language developed by {Wilf
Hey} at {IBM} in 1965 for easy production of sophisticated
large system reports.
RPG is a {3GL} similar to {COBOL}, but more concise and
supposedly easier for non-programmers to use. It processes
its input one line at a time and does not treat tables as
{conceptual entities}.
It was popular on {System 34}/36 {minicomputers}.
Versions: RPG II, RPG III, RPG/400 for IBM {AS/400}. {MS-DOS}
versions by {California Software} and {Lattice}. {Unix}
version by {Unibol}. {Cross-platform} version by {J & C
Migrations} runs on {MS-DOS}, {Windows}, {AIX}, {HP-UX}, and
{OS/390}.
See also {CL}, {OCL}.
(2004-08-24)