I'm looking at a home-grown REXX script that is 1690 lines long, and in some REXX circles it would be considered tiny. It does use external utilities, but is by no means just glue. I'd bet that there are edit macros orders of magnitude larger.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Bob Bridges [robhbrid...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, August 23, 2021 1:19 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Programs that work right the first time. Actually, that's not a bad point; I didn't think of it when I posted originally (a post I'm sorely tempted to regret now, by the way, if only I went in for that sort of thing) but my 40-line programs are that short only because they depend on external routines that are much longer. More of my REXXes than not, for example, use a one-line call to read the entirety of an external file onto the stack, and another one to put the new contents of the stack into a temporary a file and display it in View. The lines between are the ones that read, process and display. So even the allegedly simple 40 lines have a lot more going on than just that. --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* Formal courtesy between husband and wife is even more important than it is between strangers. -Lazarus Long */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Seymour J Metz Sent: Monday, August 23, 2021 06:27 "40 line REXX program" is a straw dummy. Yes, some scripts are that short, just as there are 40-line assembler programs, but many are orders of magnitude larger. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
