From: jbrock@panix.com (John Brock)
Subject: Re: Shell Central
Date: 3 Sep 2002 22:07:34 -0400
Date: 2002-09-03T22:07:34-04:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <al3pt6$7ph$1@panix3.panix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3d72b4c2$1$fuzhry+tra$mr2ice@news.patriot.net
In article <3d72b4c2$1$fuzhry+tra$mr2ice@news.patriot.net>,
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz <spamtrap@library.lspace.org.invalid> wrote:
>
>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.
Can you give us some examples? What mistakes could have been
corrected, and how might REXX have been improved by being less
different from PL/1 than it is. I'm not arguing the point, I'm
just curious.
--
John Brock
jbrock@panix.com
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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
2002-09-04 2:07 ` John Brock [this message]
2002-09-04 6:21 ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
2002-09-04 23:37 ` Peter Flass
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