Editing IBM RPG II (section)

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'''RPG II''' is a very early and popular version of the [[IBM RPG]] programming language.

It was developed in the late 1960s and designed to work on the smallest IBM systems of the time such as the [[IBM 1130]], [[IBM]] [[System/3]], [[System/32]], [[System/34]], [[System/36]]. It was also available for the [[System/370]], The [[Singer System 10]], Sperry Univac 90/25, 90/30, 90/40, System 80, [[UNIVAC 1100|1100 mainframe series]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Sperry Univac 1100/60 System |url=http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/univac/1100/datapro/70C-877-12_8301_UNIVAC_1100_60.pdf |access-date=18 January 2021}}</ref> and the [[Wang VS]] Series. [[International Computers Limited|ICL]] produced versions for its [[ICT 1900 series|ICL 2903]] system and for [[ICL VME|VME/K]]; and [[Burroughs Corporation]] produced an RPG II compiler with database extensions for its [[Burroughs B1700|B1700]] series of computers. [[Digital Equipment Corporation]] had their own implementation named VAX RPG II for [[VAX/VMS]] systems.<ref name="language-1985">{{cite web|url=http://bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/vax/handbook/VMS_Language_and_Tools_Handbook_1985.pdf|title=VAX/VMS Software Language and Tools Handbook|date=1985|access-date=2020-12-31|website=bitsavers.org}}</ref>

An enhanced version [[IBM RPG III|RPG III]] appeared in 1978.

It has a number of unusual features, including: an implied processing loop; and that it is a fixed-format programming language, so that programs are difficult to read without a special debugging template.<ref name=template/>