On 9/10/2014 8:30 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
On Wed, 10 Sep 2014 08:26:53 -0400, Hobart Spitz wrote:
How about something like:
/* REXX */
"pipe < input.dsn | split after str x0D25 | joincont not trailing x0D25 | >
output.dsn"
exit RC
Looks like Batchpipes. How prevalent is BatchPipes?
On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 3:07 AM, Martin Packer wrote:
Not knowing who the authors were, is it possible they were explaining REXX
to (what they thought to be) a CLIST-literate audience? TSO/E 2.1 would've
been a shock to some. :-)
I suggested as much, perhaps sarcastically. But it's a flawed pedagogic
practice. Whether in a natural language or in a computer language, a
student becomes fluent by immersion, learning to think in the target
language, not by composing in a previously known language and
translating to the target language.
"One can write FORTRAN in any language." Symptoms include:
o not exploiting compound symbols as associative arrays
o not using boolean values as first class data objects
o misuse of SIGNAL as if it were GOTO.
One can speak German in English: "I have been writing Rexx
since ten years."
One can speak Hindi in English: "Please answer my doubt about
Rexx syntax."
Aww geez! Now I got coffee everywhere.
-Steve Comstock
-- gil
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