Re: Being on a placement myself...
...Report Program Generator, and was about as usable as an intermediate level macro-assembler with some automatic I/O formatting..
IIRC (it's been a while), RPG was created so that computers wouldn't terrify folks who had, up until that point, been creating reports by wiring 403 Accounting Machine panels and running decks of cards through the machine.
http://s7.computerhistory.org/is/image/CHM/102691208p-03-05?$re-zoomed$
// no punched card icon????
Biting the hand that feeds IT
