In
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
on 03/03/2008
at 07:53 PM, Ted MacNEIL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Why are you separating the two?
Maybe because they are totally different?
>I rarely write REXX execs that do not interface with ISPF.
K3wl. That doesn't make them the same, nor mean that others don't use them
independently.
>Under TSO, REXX without ISPF functionality is like COBOL without packed
>decimal.
I've written plenty of REXX code that works perfectly well from the READY
prompt. I use ISPF services from REXX only when there is some point to
doing so, and I write ISPF dialogs in languages other than REXX. I may
keep my hammer and my screwdriver in the same toolbox, but that doesn't
make them the same or even similar.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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