You don't know how lucky you are.

[Russ Salsbury]

Andy Jewell <andy at wild-flower.co.uk> wrote in message news:<mailman.1052776938.14230.python-list at python.org>...
> My head is now full of cryptic, raggedy, uppercase, rambling RPG/400.

My sympathies, Andy.  I once looked at an RPG/II manual for the 360/20
around 1970.  Fortunately my boss let me code in assembler and I never
actually had to code RPG.  But I imagine that you are using RPG/IV, a
much more advanced version. :-) Or is it IV as in transfusion?

Is RPG part of the yearning for simpler times?  Making your own
candles, spinning your own wool, crapping in an unheated outhouse?  Ah
the nostalgia of it all.  Or are you preparing for the
post-apocalyptic world, where the only computers are IBM 360's?

For a Pythonista to code RPG must mean that the job situation in the
UK is as bad as it is here in California.  The only solution that I
can offer is for you to write an RPG to Python interface, then write
your programs in Python.  If your boss asks to see the RPG source,
just take any old RPG program and do a random shuffle.  He'll never
know the difference.  You OTOH will only need to code a couple of
hours a week to keep up with your coworkers and can spend your time
playing Minesweeper or other suitably productive enterprise.

Keep the faith.  Python will deliver you.

-- Russ