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From: pgl@cup.portal.com (Peter G Ludemann)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.rexx
Subject: Re: REXX: What is it? (AREXX)?)
Message-ID: <24886@cup.portal.com>
Date: 10 Dec 89 20:33:49 GMT
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Harold Tomlinson says:

  The PC equivilant would be a .bat file.  
  The Unix  "       would be a shell script.
  etc.

This doesn't come close.  

REXX is more like Unix shell + awk + usability + system-integration. 
It is very powerful, yet easy for beginners.  There also exists a
wide spectrum of tools which use REXX, such as PIPELINEs and XEDIT
on CMS (it's too new on OS/2 to have built up such a rich repetoire).

REXX is available on CMS, MVS, OS/2 and possibly others.  There is
also a compiler for CMS.

- peter ludemann		--- my opinions are my own responsibilty ---