VM CLIST?! ... No! ... EXEC and EXEC2 On 2019-01-11 07:56, scott Ford wrote: > 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://nam05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FPL%2FI&data=02%7C01%7C%7C600d104804c44aeef7e808d677c43c86%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636828082079095428&sdata=1NmMi1krkxKpBUpr7m9vhfoVhGh5xHTrcfrnJdxUI9Y%3D&reserved=0> >> 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 >>
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