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From: daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: AREXX and ICP
Message-ID: <2472@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 12-Oct-87 14:11:54 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 12 14:11:54 1987
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in article <11774@decwrl.DEC.COM>, tenny@z.dec.com (Dave Tenny | DTN 225-6089) says:
> 
> If Mr. da Silva would care to declare any REXX experience,
> I'll be happy to take his Unix religion with more than a grain of salt.

I've never actually used REXX, and I've used UNIX shell, DCL, the Amiga 
script language, and a few others.  After glancing through the AREXX
manual yesterday, I can state with certainty that as a scripting language
alone it's going to be much more powerful than any of the others I've yet
seen (actually, there was one they were developing on the DEC-20s at CMU
to replace the standard TOPS script language, though I haven't seen it
anywhere else).  That's not even considering the much tighter coupling you
can get if a program specifically uses AREXX as a macro language. 

By the way, this is the only thing IBM that I've ever liked.  PC-DOS, XEDIT,
etc. are the worst of their type as far as I'm concerned.  They got so many
things wrong it just stands to reason that they must have done something
right.  I think REXX must be it.

> Dave Tenny
> VAX LISP development.
> (Please won't somebody write Common Lisp for the Amiga...)
                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I'll second that one!

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