There's enough interest in the PC world to support multiple PC implementations, to say nothing of OOREXX. Does anybody remember what the scripting language was for Amiga?
I don't like Perl syntax, but I use it from choice because it has named captures in regexen and an awesome library (CPAN) of useful packages. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Phil Smith III <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, May 14, 2018 12:03 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Heretic alert: I really detest TSO REXX (the language) Heretic indeed! I've been a Rexx user for 35+ years, so I'm at least used to it. Have written entire products in it, published a book about it, so (surprise) I disagree. I believe that Rexx's biggest weakness was that it came from IBM back when IBM was considered Bad by the non-IBM community. If folks had jumped on Rexx and written packages like they did for Perl, I like to think that it would have been as popular. It's certainly easier to learn and write (one of its design goals, of course). I always say I have "angry" Perl skills: not "mad skillz", but angry ones. Because whenever I'm forced to use Perl, I wind up pissed off at the language! .phsiii ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
