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From: jay@splut.UUCP (Jay Maynard)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: first language
Message-ID: <84@splut.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 24-Aug-87 06:44:38 EDT
Article-I.D.: splut.84
Posted: Mon Aug 24 06:44:38 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 28-Aug-87 01:43:29 EDT
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Organization: Confederate Microsystems, League City, TX
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Summary: Uhm...I bet IBM would love to hear THAT.

In article <1228@mhres.mh.nl>, jv@mhres.mh.nl (Johan Vromans) writes:
> Isn't that what happened to Pascal: a simple, clear language meant for
> educational purposes only, and then (after being accepted) it was
> heavily mal-treated to make it suitable for *ALL* purposes? 

Uhm, Johan...don't look now, but REXX was designed/written by IBM as a
command-level script language for VM/CMS, and definitely NOT for educational
purposes only. Unlike most script languages, it's powerful enough to do real
programming in.

Hacking up REXX should be simple, as all that is required is to write a CMS
command processor to perform the required function...kinda like extending
FORTH.

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