On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 8:43 AM, Boyko Bantchev <[email protected]> wrote: > It was created around 1980 as an o.s. command (shell) language, > AND also a system-scripting-and-integration language, long before > the term ‘scripting’ was born and scripting became popular – to > my best knowledge, REXX is the first language of this kind.
I think you should include unix shell scripts in this category. And I find them extremely useful, even today. For example, I will often create windows scheduled tasks which are basically shell scripts (last week I deployed one running nothing other than a program I wrote -- tiny .bat to load shell script, a 15 lines of shell script and hundred or so lines of compiled program. This was far simpler than it would have been without the shell script.) That said, I was using REXX back in the early 80s (on the Amiga). REXX was nice but for most tasks I am far more comfortable with the concise nature of #!/bin/sh -- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
