exspes@gdr.bath.ac.uk (P E Smee) (12/15/89)
I think I'd go as far as saying that REXX is the BEST 'command-script interpretive' language I have seen in the past 20 years. (I use it on VM/CMS. No, I haven't used every scripting language in the world, so there may be a good one that I've missed -- but I have used a fair number.) It's only a pity that the underlying system (VM/CMS) is by contrast the most primitive operating system I've seen since OS/8 (on DEC PDP8's) and PCP (on IBMs). (Imagine PC-DOS or MS-DOS, but with the useful bits removed.) An implementation of REXX running on top of a rich operating system like Unix would be absolutely the cat's whiskers. On CMS, the very fact that REXX is so good serves, by the contrast, to provide a continual reminder of just how tacky the operating system is. -- Paul Smee, Univ of Bristol Comp Centre, Bristol BS8 1TW, Tel +44 272 303132 Smee@bristol.ac.uk :-) (..!uunet!ukc!gdr.bath.ac.uk!exspes if you MUST)
exspes@gdr.bath.ac.uk (P E Smee) (12/15/89)
In article <1989Dec15.111119.5845@gdt.bath.ac.uk> exspes@gdr.bath.ac.uk (P E Smee) writes: > <Various nice stuff about REXX, and nasty stuff about VM/CMS, deleted.> Just for the record, and for personal safety, I better add that (like ALL my postings) the opinions stated were my own and not those of my employer. Additionally (unlike most of my postings) they are personal views which my management does NOT approve of, appreciate, or particularly agree with -- which is why I mention it. -- Paul Smee, Univ of Bristol Comp Centre, Bristol BS8 1TW, Tel +44 272 303132 Smee@bristol.ac.uk :-) (..!uunet!ukc!gdr.bath.ac.uk!exspes if you MUST)