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Wilf Hey

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(person)Wilf Hey - The person who originally developed Report Program Generator and coined the phrase GIGO (garbage in: garbage out).

In 2004, after more than forty years in computing, he was writing for PC Plus magazine in the UK and doing Wilf's programmers workshop amongst other things. He died on 2007-01-01 after a long illness.


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RPG) An IBM programming language developed by Wilf Hey at IBM in 1965 for easy production of sophisticated large system reports.
Wilf Hey, writer and product reviewer at "SC Magazine," concludes in his review, "We found that QA Wizard brought together the programmer's detailed knowledge of the objects in the programs tested, with the analyst's thorough understanding of the objectives of running the suite, and more problems were detected and sorted out than with former manual methods.
 
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