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From: ssd@sugar.hackercorp.com (Scott Denham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: AREXX REXX SAA
Summary: REXX, SAA
Keywords: SAA IBM
Message-ID: <6893@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Date: 25 Oct 90 23:44:36 GMT
References: <1990Oct23.192639.11852@cbnewse.att.com>
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In article <1990Oct23.192639.11852@cbnewse.att.com>, cwpjr@cbnewse.att.com (clyde.w.jr.phillips) writes:
> Yet this company is advertising their REXX clone by calling it:
> 
> The IBM SAA Standard System Control Language
> 
> Is this true? Are we more mainstrem than we think? Any other relevent comments?
> 
 Yes, it's quite true, IBM is pushing their REXX across all of their 
product lines as their "standard" scripting/control language. What 
you should be aware of, though, is that SAA Rexx is a subset of ARexx,
OR of any of the really useful IBM variants of Rexx, so most "real"
REXX applications arent really all that portable. For example, all of the
file I/O stuff is left to system-specific extensions; I don't know how
similar these extensions are between the IBM platforms, but I do know that
the I/O in MVS Rexx is nothing like the I/O in Arexx.
 
    Scott Denham 
> Thanbks, Clyde