RPG - Programming language

RPG, aka Report Program Generator, is a programming language created in 1959.

#469on PLDB

65Years Old

RPG is a high-level programming language (HLL) for business applications. RPG is an IBM proprietary programming language and its later versions are available only on IBM i- or OS/400-based systems. It has a long history, having been developed by IBM in 1959 as the Report Program Generator - a tool to replicate punched card processing on the IBM 1401 then updated to RPG II for the IBM System/3 in the late 1960s, and since evolved into an HLL equivalent to COBOL and PL/I. Read more on Wikipedia...

Tags: programming language
Early development of RPG happened in IBM
RPG on HOPL
RPG ranks #47 in the TIOBE Index
See also: (7 related languages) COBOL, PL/I, Pascal, Assembly language, Algol, AUTOCODER, Java
2 PLDB concepts link to RPG: RPG II, RPG III

Example from hello-world:

**free
dsply 'Hello World';
return;

Example from Wikipedia:

ctl-opt main(GetCustInf);
       dcl-ds ARMSTF1 ext end-ds;
       dcl-proc GetCustInf;
         dcl-pi *n extpgm('CUS001');
           inCusNo like(arCNum) const;
           outName like(arName);
           outAddr1 like(arAdd1);
           outAddr2 like(arAdd2);
           outCity like(arCity);
           outState like(arStte);
           outZip like(arZip);
         end-pi;
         exec sql select arName, arAdd1, arAdd2, arCity, arStte, arZip
                  into  :outName, :outAddr1, :outAddr2, :outCity, :outState,
                        :outZip
                  from   ARMSTF1
                  where  arCNum = :inCusNo
                  fetch first 1 row only
                  with CS
                  use currently committed;
         return;
       end-proc;

Language features

Feature	Supported	Example	Token
Strings	✓	'Hello world'	'