Bob Bridges wrote, in part:
>2) The ability to interact live with subsystems.  In CLIST I can start an>
FTP session and interact with it, grabbing FTP's responses and deciding on>
the fly what command to issue next.  In REXX I have to queue up an entire>
session, then call FTP and decide afterward how it went, just like a batch>
job.  I've never found a way around this.

The Rexx answer to that would be a subcommand environment, but of course
that requires the thing it's calling to work with such an environment,
whereas it sounds like CLIST is just better-integrated into the OS, which
makes sense.


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