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From: phil@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.lang.rexx
Subject: UNIX REXX makes sense
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Date: 6 Jun 89 21:34:00 GMT
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Nf-From: ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!phil    Jun  6 16:34:00 1989


A UNIX version of REXX would make sense.  It may not be everyone's favorite
language, but it does have some powerful capabilities.

One would only need to write (in C) a REXX interpreter that took as its
first argument the name of the REXX file to run.  Then the REXX syntax
would be modified slightly to accept #!/{path}/rexx at the beginning of
the source file.  You could then make "rexx scripts" just like shell
scripts, only in a different language.  Further extensions to give access
to UNIX functions would also be nice (remove all the CMS-isms).

Does some wizard of writer of language interpreter want to tackle this one?

--Phil howard--  <phil@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>