In <5449b49c.3040...@gmail.com>, on 10/24/2014 at 10:08 AM, David Crayford <dcrayf...@gmail.com> said:
>I don't want to be too disparaging about REXX but I've profiled it >extensively and it is not an effecient implementation. That depends on what "it" is. What did you profile? OS/2 CREXX? OS/2 OREXX? z/OS REXX? z/VM REXX? Regina? For EXECIO profiling, were you accessing single records or multiple records? OOREXX on a PC might well outperform, e.g., TSO/E REXX. on z for some tasks. Note: one possible reason to learn lua is that the wiki folks are using it for some of their tools. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN