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From: schow@bcarh185.bnr.ca (Stanley T.H. Chow)
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Subject: Re: Summary of responses to query "Why use REXX in Unix environment?"
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Date: 14 Oct 90 17:40:27 GMT
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In article <69733@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> jac@gandalf..llnl.gov (James Crotinger) writes:
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>  Do people in the VM/CMS world use REXX for this type of thing?
>(Obviously people don't on PC's 8-). How about on UNIX?

Yes. On our VM/SP system, the editor comes from IBM with a REXX port.
We have built REXX ports into several of our "most-used" programs. Works
like a charm. (And this was before Amiga, let alone AREXX).

Now that we have several thousands ofworkstations, we are still trying to
recreate this functionality on Unix.

[Oh no, I just started a flame war. :-)]

>
>  Jim
>
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>James A. Crotinger   Lawrence Livermore Nat'l Lab // The above views 
>jac@gandalf.llnl.gov P.O. Box 808;  L-630     \\ // are mine and are not 
>(415) 422-0259       Livermore CA  94550       \\/ necessarily those of LLNL.


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