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From: rap@ardent.UUCP (Rob Peck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Cowlishaw's book on REXX
Summary: if price is no object
Keywords: REXX Cowlishaw book
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Date: 10 Mar 89 20:06:16 GMT
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Organization: Dana Computer, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA
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I paid I believe $36.95 for the brief (under 120 pages as I remember)
Colinshaw paperback on REXX.  The primary reason was to see how faithful
a rendition of REXX was implemented as AREXX.  Indeed it seems to be all
there and my advice to any potential purchasers is that Bill Hawes manual
covers all of REXX, and its Amiga-specific extentions.  If you have a need
to write portable code that'll run on other vanilla REXX implementations,
then sure, go ahead and get the Colinshaw book (a good book, but redundant
given the quality of Bill's manual).  But otherwise, forget it.

I found mine at Computer Literacy, in Sunnyvale, CA.  If you want to
buy mine at a slightly reduced rate, like maybe $30, shipping included,
then email me.  I'm a book-a-holic, maybe I'll "need" it someday so I'm
not likely to be willing to sell it for any less.   Ah, the smell of a
library at nightfall...

Rob Peck