From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f891f,84341d9bfd06c34b X-Google-Attributes: gidf891f,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,7fc5f2ed2567dae4 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 101deb,7fc5f2ed2567dae4 X-Google-Attributes: gid101deb,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-09-03 19:07:35 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!panix!panix3.panix.com!not-for-mail From: jbrock@panix.com (John Brock) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.pl1 Subject: Re: Shell Central Date: 3 Sep 2002 22:07:34 -0400 Organization: PANIX -- Public Access Networks Corp. Message-ID: References: <3d72b4c2$1$fuzhry+tra$mr2ice@news.patriot.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: panix3.panix.com X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1031105255 13926 166.84.1.3 (4 Sep 2002 02:07:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 02:07:35 +0000 (UTC) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.misc:3709 comp.lang.ada:28719 comp.lang.pl1:3010 Date: 2002-09-03T22:07:34-04:00 List-Id: In article <3d72b4c2$1$fuzhry+tra$mr2ice@news.patriot.net>, Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz wrote: > >In , on 08/30/2002 > at 01:41 PM, Christopher Browne 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