Re: RPG on the Tiobe Index -- RPG400-L

Subject: Re: RPG on the Tiobe Index
From: "James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:10:26 -0700
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What does RPG have to do with some Oscar Wilde play?
(if confused, enter "TIOBE" in Wikipedia, and see what comes up)

"Beloved language"? That hardly seems the case, given as how far too many people on this List are awfully quick to (1) abandon The Cycle, and (2) embrace a free-format extension that seems modeled mainly after PL/I. (If you want PL/I, use PL/I, for pity's sake!)

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