You snipped my link about the Stooges :)
That was the only reason I even commented on this silly argument.
On 6/19/2025 9:57 PM, Jon Perryman wrote:
On Wed, 18 Jun 2025 22:59:44 -0700, Tom Brennan <[email protected]>
wrote:
On 6/18/2025 8:43 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
And in BASIC, "PRINT" (still) means "Display on Terminal."
That still makes more sense than "SAY" in REXX
What would be a better word than "SAY"? Not making sense is a good thing because
it's environment dependent. UNIX stdout, batch sysout, TSO putline (I think), CICS & IMS
????, sysrexx ???? and more.
In the past, someone asked for IBM to create an OOREXX. Writing OOREXX was the
simple part of the design. IBM provides everything needed for each environment
and it's up to the OOREXX developers to implement the desired environment
compatible. Many of things we dislike with IBM REXX make it compatible. E.g. a
member contains all the functions instead of including additional members like
other languages. OOREXX was designed for Unix and written in C or C++. Simply
put, there is no benefit to making OOREXX for TSO, IMS, CICS and ???.
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