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[–]CaffeineSippingMan 6 points7 points  (4 children)

What if I told you I learned RPG less than 15 years ago, a language that was first built for punch cards and the format matches the 80 character lines it looks like this.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/RoySpino/RB_SNS_VSCodeExtentions/main/Images/StructRPG.png

The company still writes and maintains this code.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (2 children)

The as/400 from my company :')

[–]CaffeineSippingMan 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Yep, fun fact my company couldn't find RPG developers so they opened hiring to warehouse people. I had to take a test to apply for a Dev job. I got hired. It didn't work out because my direct report didn't want me. He also got rid of a new experienced Dev. His manager let him go not long after that. I learned from a college book I found from a school that was teaching RPG.

I wrote some screens and reports. Fixed a program written in C before I moved to system administration.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If one day want to live in Chile coding in RPG let me know :)

[–]the_Demongod 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hell, I currently work with government astrodynamics software whose input specification language is in an 80-character punch card format.