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From: jdege@ (Jeff Dege)
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Subject: Re: Summary of responses to query "Why use REXX in Unix environment?"
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Date: 15 Oct 90 01:00:38 GMT
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In article <3451@bnr-rsc.UUCP> bcarh185!schow@bnr-rsc.UUCP (Stanley T.H. Chow) writes:
>In article <69733@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> jac@gandalf..llnl.gov (James Crotinger) writes:
>>
>>  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. :-)]
>
   Is it just me, or is there another advantage that is getting missed?
Unix makes for a very powerful system, but every tool is different.  If
you want to do anything complicated you have to deal with programming
in the shell, that lispish stuff in gnu-emacs, awk, ad infinitum.
One of the greatest things about REXX (well, AREXX, as I have no
experience with other flavors) is the ability to use the SAME scripting
language for the shell, term program, editor, database, etc.
 
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