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
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