I usually say script because of use of "shell script" in UNIX. For REXX, I 
often say "REXX program". What I really hate is "REXX clist". Which is it, REXX 
or CLIST? On VM, I guess REXX exec could also give rise to "REXX" or "EXEC" 
("EXEC" being conceptually similar to CLIST in this context).

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]]
> On Behalf Of John Gilmore
> Sent: Friday, August 24, 2012 10:49 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: "execs" or "scripts"
> 
> Your bad it may be, but I cannot refrain from noting that, while I too
> prefer 'script' to 'exec', even 'exec' is better than talking/writing
> about 'a REXX' or REXXs'; and this subliterate usage appears to be
> spreading: we have far too much of it on IBM-MAIN.
> 
> --jg
> 
> On 8/24/12, Anne & Lynn Wheeler <[email protected]> wrote:
> > [email protected] (zMan) writes:
> >> Relevance?
> >
> > my bad, thread in comp.lang.rexx that went to wrong place
> >
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