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In <aknsli$1kb8df$1@ID-125932.news.dfncis.de>, on 08/30/2002
   at 01:41 PM, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org> said:

>Parallel it with REXX, which essentially provides a simplified
>version of PL/1.

No. The semantics of REXX are very different from those of PL/I, and
trying to use it as if it were a simplified PL/I will lead to some
nasty bugs. IMHO that was a mistake; it would have been better had
they syntax been a lot different of the semantics a lot closer.


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