5 engineers on Hacker News describe using RPG first-hand: 2 endorse it, 2 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“RPG2 was fun, TUTLY was ... interesting. COBOL? Never again.”
endorse · production · jerhewet · 2023-09-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“dislike others (RPG III, COBOL, perl)”
regret · personal · wglb · 2018-11-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I had to program in RPG III for about a year then discovered COBOL was not so bad.”
regret · production · 1 yr · wglb · 2017-05-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Even RPG has gone modern with fully free form code, procedures, embedded sql”
endorse · production · Shivetya · 2015-07-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Yes we use RPG, occasional COBOL is around, and CL is the wrapper.”
neutral · production · Shivetya · 2013-01-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?