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On 07/04/97 at 07:57 AM, cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA (Chris Gray)
said: > coder#ibm,net wrote:
>:Mike Cowlishaw is an interesting one to talk to on language design. A
>:very opionated, articulate, frighteningly intelligent fellow. We
>:disagreed often -- but he had the research data to back his side up. He
>:put a lot of thought into REXX's baroque design -- it is and was very
>:accurately intended as a language for non-programmers.
>Ah, but you are a programmer (sorta by definition!), so could *you* get
>along using REXX or something based on it?
It would be a bit uncomfortable, but I think I could. I really have to
take a look into OREXX (ala REXX with Objects) to see how well (if at all)
it would adapt. If I could live with its object model, it might just
work.
>It is likely that you would
>have to do the vast majority of the work using it, just to get a decent
>code base for your server.
Bingo. <ouch>
>REXX is the standard inter-program control mechanism on the Amiga, and it
>comes with the system.
Ditto for OS/2. There are also a bunch of external REXX libraries
available. I can pretty well do anything from application automation, to
mailing lists, full mailers, asynch comms, TCP/IP (sockets, HTTP, FTP,
Gopher, etc), X-base, string and file parsing/filtering, SNA, 3270
automation, LU 1, LU3, LU6.2, etc under REXX.
>I read the docs on it a few years ago and decided
>to never touch it. :-/
Where else can you find a type-less language where any non-reservered word
tag is automatically a symbol, and where symbols automatically default in
value to their name?
Ahh, its not that bad. This list is being run by a set of REXX scripts,
and I'm currently working thru Steward (the majordomo-ish affair) which is
also written in REXX. Heck I know people with a commercial graphic image
analysis application written in VX-REXX...let alone several commercial
banking applications.
--
J C Lawrence Internet: claw#null,net
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00024" HREF="msg00024.html">Re: Random thoughts</A></strong>,
Jon A. Lambert <a href="mailto:jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com">jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com</a>, Sun 06 Apr 1997, 06:54 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00033" HREF="msg00033.html">Re: Random thoughts</A></strong>,
coder <a href="mailto:coder#ibm,net">coder#ibm,net</a>, Mon 07 Apr 1997, 10:27 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00036" HREF="msg00036.html">Re: Random thoughts</A></strong>,
Jon A. Lambert <a href="mailto:jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com">jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com</a>, Mon 07 Apr 1997, 12:57 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00037" HREF="msg00037.html">Re: Random thoughts</A></strong>,
Chris Gray <a href="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</a>, Mon 07 Apr 1997, 21:40 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00041" HREF="msg00041.html">Re: Random thoughts</A></strong>,
coder <a href="mailto:coder#ibm,net">coder#ibm,net</a>, Tue 08 Apr 1997, 04:09 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00044" HREF="msg00044.html">Re: Random thoughts</A></strong>,
Jon A. Lambert <a href="mailto:jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com">jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com</a>, Tue 08 Apr 1997, 09:25 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00045" HREF="msg00045.html">Re: Random thoughts</A></strong>,
Jon A. Lambert <a href="mailto:jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com">jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com</a>, Tue 08 Apr 1997, 09:48 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00047" HREF="msg00047.html">Re: Random thoughts</A></strong>,
Chris Gray <a href="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</a>, Tue 08 Apr 1997, 13:13 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00091" HREF="msg00091.html">Re: Random thoughts</A></strong>,
clawrenc <a href="mailto:clawrenc#cup,hp.com">clawrenc#cup,hp.com</a>, Sat 12 Apr 1997, 05:10 GMT
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