From: "Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz" <spamtrap@library.lspace.org.invalid>
Subject: Re: Shell Central
Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2002 13:27:35 -0400
Date: 2002-09-03T13:27:35-04:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3d74f107$1$fuzhry+tra$mr2ice@news.patriot.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3D73B04C.4030207@attglobal.net
In <3D73B04C.4030207@attglobal.net>, on 09/02/2002
at 02:39 PM, "John W. Kennedy" <jwkenne@attglobal.net> said:
>REXX was designed chiefly to be non-astonishing to non-programmers.
>The PL/I similarities are no more significant than the similarities
>between C and PERL.
The syntax of REXX is superficially a lot closer to PL/I than the
syntax of PERL is to C. And regardless of the intent, the effect is to
trip up the PL/I programmer because of the things that look similar
but are very different.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
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2002-08-30 13:41 ` Shell Central Christopher Browne
2002-08-30 17:35 ` John Brock
2002-08-30 20:42 ` Peter da Silva
2002-08-30 22:26 ` John Brock
2002-09-02 0:45 ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
2002-09-02 18:39 ` John W. Kennedy
2002-09-03 17:27 ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz [this message]
2002-09-04 2:07 ` John Brock
2002-09-04 6:21 ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
2002-09-04 23:37 ` Peter Flass
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