I still code Rexx almost daily on z/VM, but have tried to use bash scripts on Linux, with the occasional call to awk and perl. There are a few reasons for this - but it's mostly because I want/need to write code that can run on any Linux system, without requiring an extra package that most probably don't have installed.
There are too many great things about Rexx for me to ever give it up. I exploit the flexible array structures shamelessly and love the parse command. It's hard to beat for readability IMHO. I'll probably never be able to code things as quickly with other languages as I can with Rexx - but that's probably understandable after 25 years of almost daily use. Scott Rohling On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 7:27 PM, John McKown <joa...@swbell.net> wrote: > On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 17:13 -0700, Scott Rohling wrote: > > You can.. Regina Rexx is available on SLES/RH distros or downloadable > from > > the web.. IBM OORexx is open source and available as well. > > > > I've weaned myself off of it on Linux for the most part - but when I > first > > became a penguin trainer, using it let me be immediately productive. > > > > Scott Rohling > > > > Why go away from it? Due to lack of interest in the general community? > Granted, awk / perl / python / ruby (not necessarily in that order) > would be more understandable to more UNIX script writers. > > -- > John McKown > Maranatha! <>< > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux on System z, visit > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
