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 <dcrayf...@gmail.com> 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
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