[comp.lang.rexx] PERL On UNIX

Will@cup.portal.com (Will E Estes) (06/18/90)

I was talking to a Supervisor of a UNIX group at a large company the
other day and he told me that there is a new language in the public
domain named PERL that is, reportedly, better than REXX.  Of course
one has to qualify on what criteria is it better, but what struck
me about his comment was that the people within his organization
who were making the claim that PERL is better were long-time REXX
advocates.  

Does anyone have experience with PERL and how does it compare to REXX?
In particular, what semantics does it have to map to the ADDRESS 
instruction and multi-application control in a multi-tasking environment?

Thanks,
Will Estes        (sun!portal!cup.portal.com!Will)