> if there are only two options (CLIST & Rexx) which would you choose?
"Remember that after Heracles cleaned up the Augean stables, he killed the man who asked him to." Robert Townsend, "Up The Organization. I'd choose REXX as long as I didn't need anything fancy from the stack. Second choice is REXX with freedom to write REXX-aware external functions in HLASM. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Edward Gould <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2018 10:09 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Heretic alert: I really detest TSO REXX (the language) > On May 15, 2018, at 8:34 AM, Dyck, Lionel B. (TRA) <[email protected]> wrote: > > While I agree that REXX is more appropriate for smaller projects - there are > tradeoffs. If an application is going to be used frequently (100's of times > per day) and performance is important then don't use REXX. If an application > is going to be used less frequently, or there is a need to be able to easily > and quickly update it, then REXX is excellent for that purpose. REXX allows > you to prototype an application, and if it works adequately then it may be > better to leave it in REXX than to rewrite it. > > Just my $0.01 Lionel: I agree pretty much with you, if there are only two options (CLIST & Rexx) which would you choose? Ed ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
