On Fri, 20 Jun 2025 16:49:53 +0100, Colin Paice <[email protected]> wrote:
>I think SAY came about because of history.    In the beginning, most people
>using REX(X) ran it on CMS interactively and it chatted to the end user
>running the exec.

Mike's explanation in The REXX Language was that "SAY . . . typically causes it 
to be displayed (or spoken, or typed, etc.) to the user."  He had blind friends 
(and/or antagonists) using talking terminals among the early users, so for them 
SAY really did mean "say."

¬R

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