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From: davewt@NCoast.ORG (David Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.rexx
Subject: Re: REXX: What is it? (AREXX)?)
Summary: That's not quite true....
Keywords: REXX
Message-ID: <1989Dec12.211158.25536@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 12 Dec 89 21:11:58 GMT
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In article <1989Dec12.160943.16118@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu> schwartz@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu (Scott Schwartz) writes:
>Not really...  It doesn't have continuations (like Scheme or
>Self), nor does it have coroutines (like the unix shell languages!).

	That's not quite true. If something can be done in other languages,
it can be done in Rexx by simply writing a function in another language
that CAN do it! If you want a random number generator, you could write it
in C. If you want a windowing system or pop-up file requester, do it in
some other language. That's the great thing about Rexx. The language is as
extensible as you want to make it.

			Dave