On Wed, 20 May 2015 07:58:38 -0700, Tom Brennan wrote:
>J O Skip Robinson wrote:
>> Coding subcommands in reverse order just to save one letter in each REXX
>> command would be absurd.
>
>Completely you with agree I, Skip.
>
CMS/TSO Pipelines embodies a similar absurdity:
PIPE literal A
| literal B
| literal C
| console
displays:
C
B
A
I understand it was implemented that way because of performance concerns.
Pipelines, however, supports instream data, which Rexx sorely and peculiarly
among command languages lacks.
-- gil
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