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From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: AREXX and ICP
Message-ID: <774@sugar.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 20-Sep-87 10:04:34 EDT
Article-I.D.: sugar.774
Posted: Sun Sep 20 10:04:34 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 24-Sep-87 07:16:29 EDT
References: <267@mitsumi.UUCP> <3939@well.UUCP> <20098UH2@PSUVM> <28070@sun.uucp>
Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
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Summary: Say what?

In article <28070@sun.uucp>, cmcmanis@pepper.UUCP writes:
> The point being that AREXX is *just like* REXX on the IBM mainframes.

Say what? You want to implement an IBoMination on an Amiga?

> This was the whole point of it in the first place. So if you know
> REXX you know AREXX and vice versa sort of.

So you want to implement Yet Another Scripting Language that only a few
people know anything about? What's wrong with UNIX-style scripts? Or if
you want to go whole-hog, use Xlisp. Modified lisps are one of the most
common special purpose languages around (GNU Emacs, ADVsys, etc...). And
given the typical memory requirements of IBM-mainframe software, I'd doubt
that AREXX would be too handy for us 512K types.
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