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by dwd 4843 days ago
COBOL gets all the hate but if they have a Big iron mainframe then they'll most likely be running RPG.
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Only if it is AS/400 based systems.
RPG was more oriented towards mini-computers than mainframes, from what I recall. It's niche was the IBM S/36, S/38, AS/400 and iSeries boxes. I'm sure you probably could get RPG for your S/360 or S/390 or whatever, but from what I've seen over the years, it was mostly COBOL, PL/I, and MVS Assembler on the mainframes.