Where can i find info to write a research paper on rpg?

[rob396]

I have a research paper to write tonight. Does anyone know where i can find information to write the report? All the searches i do on the net don't help. Please give suggestions.

Thanks

 

[Zathras]

Be as specific as you can in your search. RPG is the designator for a language used on IBM 360 which was in fact a "Report Program Generator" and not very powerful -- hardly a language at all. RPG II is the designator for a language used on the IBM System/3 and was a full-featured programming language that suffered from association with the original RPG. What they had in common was the use of highly stylized syntax with things having to be in specific columns.

I did a search with
"RPG II" IBM history system/3
in Yahoo (Google) and found the following which doesn't have much but may be a helpful place to start:

http://www.dacc.edu/~janeb/rpg/CHAP1/tsld001.htm