In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 08/18/2006
at 03:43 PM, Thomas Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Yes, but at least regarding REXX I haven't found any mentionable
>"wartifications". Do You think of any specific points ?
Quite a few. See my "Safe REXX" article. Off the top of my head:
The lack of support for the TSO stack comparable to what CLIST[1]
provides.
The lack of support for parsing.
The fact that the syntax is close enough to PL/I[2] to mislead
people into coding as if it were PL/I when the semantics are
very different.
The lack of call by reference. That's fixed in OREXX, but I'm not
aware of a CMS or TSO port.
The lack of true block structure.
[1] But I still prefer REXX to CLIST.
[2] I have the same issue with SAS.
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