<Gasp of horror> <Fingers in ears> "LA LA LA LA...!"
Ok, truthfully, I keep meaning to dig out PL/1 and start using it again. Someday. But I do adore REXX. I wrote in CLIST for years, but one day (back in the '80s, it was) encountered a warning from IBM threatening someday to stop supporting CLIST and to make REXX the Only Official Language. I took them seriously and started reading a REXX manual. I've been a fan ever since. Since then I've heard that IBM issues that warning every so often, but shows no sign of actually doing it. I'm still glad I learned REXX, though. I tried to do some text-to-RTF conversion in VBS, a year or so ago, before giving up and finally downloading a copy of ooREXX. I was surprised at how much more there was to ooREXX than TSO-REXX, and at having to spend a few days reading before I could do anything useful. And I still can't do anything in it that I would then turn over to a client; no one else has it. But it's impressively useful. --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age I don't want something around my neck that's worth more than my head. -Rita Rudner */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of David Crayford Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2021 08:40 REXX is a great scripting language but it's a poor programming language. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
