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From: UH2@PSUVM.BITNET (Lee Sailer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: REXX/AREXX: You know, Like PL/1
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Date: 9 Apr 89 14:09:27 GMT
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I, too, have heard a lot of people say REXX is, u no, like PL/1.

Personally, I think this is a red herring.  The IF, DO, and some other
control structures are vaguely like PL/1, but as a complete language
REXX is no more like PL/1 than it is like ICON.  For example, one of the
richest features of REXX is that you can use the string manipulation
functions to create a string that is a syntactically correct REXX
command, and then you can execute it.  Now, you cannot do this is
PL/1, though you can in languages like Lisp, for x.