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From: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: AREXX and ICP
Message-ID: <2391@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 26-Sep-87 12:32:32 EDT
Article-I.D.: cbmvax.2391
Posted: Sat Sep 26 12:32:32 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 27-Sep-87 11:01:36 EDT
References: <267@mitsumi.UUCP> <3939@well.UUCP> <20098UH2@PSUVM> <28070@sun.uucp> <611@rocky.STANFORD.EDU> <822@sugar.UUCP>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <822@sugar.UUCP> peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
> In article <611@rocky.STANFORD.EDU>, rokicki@rocky.STANFORD.EDU (Tomas Rokicki) writes:
> > > 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
> > Few people?  There is a huge base of REXX users out there.  Unix
> > scripts are fine, as long as you add full awk capabilities as well.
> 
> There a huge base of IBM-mainframe types out there who know REXX. Most people
> with Amigas, however, are more likely to be frustrated UNIX fans.

The person who wrote AREXX is one of those mainframe types who happens to also
be interested in the Amiga and felt the lack of one of the few (my opinion)
nice features of the IBM operating system/editor arrangements.  Now it may
well be that it doesn't appeal to you, in which case you are free to to a
better job, however it seems that you have been criticising AREXX on general
principles without bothering to find out what it is really all about...

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