In
<cahm_n2m08opeaony8+jdbfnwccjte0efktuqsncctbxins4...@mail.gmail.com>,
on 08/27/2012
   at 01:53 PM, Kirk Wolf <[email protected]> said:

>I like REXX, but I don't find the language itself to be nearly as
>nice as scripting languages like Python and even EMCAScript (AKA
>Javascript).

The way REXX handles bare words and implicit concatenation makes it
much more concise and much more readable for scripting. OTOH, it's
parsing facilities are minimal.

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