You can argue anything is or isn’t , I think what matters is ease of usage , platform interchangeability , I.E., Linux and windows for Oorexx. The advent of rexx, I started on VM/SP 3 , I think, was a huge improvement over the old VM clist language. The old clist to me being more clunky . Rexx was easy to learn and have up and running . This was a g pus at least for me.
The PL/1 likeness is the “ if then do” , I wrote a bunch of PL/1 on OS/VS2/HASP, back to n the dark ages. On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 10:18 PM David Crayford <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11/01/2019 10:27 am, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > > Semicolons, yes, but: > > do <=> { > > end <=> } > > switch <=> SELECT > > ... > > I think Rexx got much of its lexical flavor from PL/I. But that's easy > for > > me to say becase I don't know PL/I. > > From Wiki "Rexx was also intended by its creator to be a simplified and > easier to learn version of the PL/I <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PL/I> > programming language" > > I agree with Steve. There is very little similarity between REXX and C. > A case in point would be short circuit evaluation which is fundamental > to C and > sadly lacking in REXX. There are some similarities between a language > like JavaScript and C because of the lineage of most curly bracket > languages. > > > >> On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 6:48 PM Steve Smith wrote: > >> > >>> REXX is lot like C? I can't think of anything they have in common > beyond > >>> the minimum basics of any procedural language. > > Bless Rexx for making ';' and newline very nearly interchangeable, in > contrast > > to POSIX Shell script, where they aren't. > > > > -- gil > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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 > -- Scott Ford IDMWORKS z/OS Development ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
