David, Agreed. No argument here.
On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 9:39 AM David Crayford <[email protected]> wrote: > I wasn't arguing I was just stating the fact that REXX is nothing like > C. To state the bloody obvious it's a scripting language and > C was designed to write operating systems. They have different design > goals and both have their strengths and weaknesses. > > On 11/01/2019 8:56 pm, 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://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 > >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
