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In article <15050@bfmny0.UU.NET> tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff) writes:
>	RPG		syntax by indentation :-)

Actually, it's syntax by card column, but RPG does what it does, which is
to produce straightforward reports from fixed form input, as well as anything
else.  (Later versions added all sorts of junk for indexed files and
complicated calculations on the way from input to output, but any language
gets baroque in its later days.  Just look at Fortran 8X.)

Personally I prefer awk, which is very much the Unix equivalent of RPG, but
for keeping inventory records on a 4K byte machine, you could have done
far worse.
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