Lizette's point is the crucial one. I,. for one, would make quite different recommendations to a novice and to an experienced programmer who just happened not to know REXX and/or COBOL.
What you know in detail may even be important. I recently taught REXX to my teenager group, who already knew PL/I and the HLASM macro language; they learned REXX very rapidly. Like many PL/I programmers they still make more use of optional semicolons than they need to do, but they were able to use REXX 'arrays' as soon as I made it clear that they were very like HLASM created set-symbol arrays. In a word, tell us what you [already] know. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
