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From: 2011_552@uwovax.uwo.ca (Terry Gaetz (Astronomy, U. Western Ontario))
Newsgroups: comp.groupware,comp.misc,comp.sw.components,comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Prototyping and the Development Process
Message-ID: <7046.26f7c56c@uwovax.uwo.ca>
Date: 19 Sep 90 23:22:19 GMT
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In article <11736@pucc.Princeton.EDU>, EGNILGES@pucc.Princeton.EDU (Ed Nilges) writes:
[... discussion of benefits of REXX as a prototyping language deleted ...]

> Although I lack a REXX to C translator and so in some sense recreate
> everything when moving  from REXX prototype code to C code, in another,
> stronger sense the same code (same algorithms) run both in the proto-
> type and the final version.
> 
> Soooo....if you have REXX, use it.  I understand it's now available
> in OS/2 Extended Edition, the Amiga and unix.
-- 
REXX is available for MS-DOS machines too:  "Personal REXX" from the
Mansfield Software Group.  (Mansfield also sells KEDIT, a clone of IBM's
XEDIT.  KEDIT has a subset of REXX, called KEXX, built in as
the macro processing language.)
--

(No connection with Mansfield Software Group other than as an
 Extremely Satisfied KEDIT User.)

Terry Gaetz         --   gaetz@uwovax.uwo.ca   --   gaetz@uwovax.BITNET