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From: giguere@csg.uwaterloo.ca (Eric Giguere)
Subject: Re: AREXX REXX SAA
Message-ID: <1990Oct24.033026.12015@maytag.waterloo.edu>
Keywords: SAA IBM
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Date: Wed, 24 Oct 90 03:30:26 GMT
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In article <1990Oct23.192639.11852@cbnewse.att.com> cwpjr@cbnewse.att.com (clyde.w.jr.phillips) writes:
>The IBM SAA Standard System Control Language
>
>Is this true? Are we more mainstrem than we think? Any other relevent comments?

Yup.  IBM has chosen REXX as its SAA "Common Procedures Language".  OS/2 1.2
includes a REXX interpreter.... I was flipping through the programming
tech ref and it's a lot like the VM/CMS REXX, with SUBCOM interfaces and
everything.  So ARexx is definitely "mainstream" and a damn good implementation
in fact.  (IBM wants people to use REXX as a "glue" language to tie apps
together, much like we're doing today with ARexx.  Microsoft wants people to
use BASIC, if you can believe it...)

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Eric Giguere                                       giguere@csg.UWaterloo.CA