On 29/06/2022 10:48 pm, Seymour J Metz wrote:
Have you stopped beating your wife? There is no agreement of what is a better language,
much less a description of the context in which to evaluate "better".
You really are a huge twat. Why don't you just bugger off. You won't be
missed.
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On 29/06/2022 6:37 pm, Seymour J Metz wrote:
Sme, but manageable. The article Safe REXX at
<http://secure-web.cisco.com/18tXxLjz2q-nDjE3Fk3aQsvRJpFcP22D9GKeoWSbitPmfcGAttYHjb-kP18U8Ikl-aTGx-pwraxaebV32MLF29JU1T5PHRSawvmtcOGrlNGx7qinsWE4REjw9lBM0v-qPHaExEKTjFI5whqyzgNqyyP8lJXknHgVjB9cG81on4LMjV-ujVAqpW3I-PSQoBgSx1-68Dt9t0tiiiZC2mDbYmhMIfA34222KIpNnr3jIWqO2GmhJvocQ6YsZ4LFzMypLVDsEzR1jq2yHlrf-j3yNYMBOBBgbawlGvlwTlhcDmyj5VUWQPczUZkWLHAwKtz8DidQWTRQb3gMsJzKiE-WSx1GWdm6Q0IiDjs2_Omg4xTOuCBtUymaNKzQUCYdHr65JzHggOCeIsQlhDwHMCl30Fku0q_ApFl2GTV8nFoXiCad0H0PKU9S6UZqHhGLy0ZqE/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rexxla.org%2FNewsletter%2F9812safe.html>
and
<http://secure-web.cisco.com/1YOkF0HmSXzgkUjFJmn8yFhg2L09HrpgS0qAPaRvAUGL9PH3DMRW9K45clWzrW3ewTanQwrdKON0NcKzVyqjLzs0d5niuN5Wj3Wz8MHU971Gj4znrgmAATcjrWFQuA1kJt6A09GQttX8NMkRBn485myf2jYTkMEdH4Wi8xuhHqRIh3-zivudzlZAe3urnn9HJS_dAirVPwjrWMdNZKY23K2d0i77HzCdFFa2Bomro21ICQV5LodBCmW7FVOYvTEK9Mt6MKlkVZxG9bwOvl_233vbJ1fMWIxmy9wqXSdyBfeiAbPJI3BDNK-pVkTQXi1u435aytEI2WvKF5emDChP3q5DKBhScFJ5oDZeN8lMrLcbd4hAcHY!
nrtSS_rhn5jeu2S3924pgQlUz_wRvRDI4Yo6x5c15qLVoxg18D_XjKAA_W9IwcaxWHhc_lIcXL81Pt/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rexxla.org%2FNewsletter%2F9901safe.html">
has some tips on avoiding REXX pitfalls.
What's the point in managing something when you can just use a better
language? It's a good time to be working on z/OS as we have an abundance
of choice. That's not entirely obvious on this forum where every problem
seems to be met with a ham-fisted REXX solution.
Yes, Crayford's bashing REXX again. I have some experience of using z/OS
UNIX REXX services but I didn't find it productive. Maybe somebody with
more knowledge than me could post a snippet that demonstrates how to
recursively traverse a directory tree printing the entries.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3
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Subject: Re: Some questions on SYSCALL
On 29/06/2022 5:42 am, Charles Mills wrote:
"write" fd "buf"
Which makes no sense to me at all. fd is passed by value but "buf" by name?
It's horribly inconsistent and unpleasant to use. The buffer HAS to be a
passed by reference (variable) as it could break REXX string length
limits or contain characters that REXX chokes on.
I can't help but think that you've made a rod for your back. REXX is
superficially simple but in my experience, which is 30 years of using
the language, it is anything but and has endless pitfalls.
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