Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!dcl-cs!ux63!gdt!gdr!exspes From: exspes@gdr.bath.ac.uk (P E Smee) Newsgroups: comp.lang.rexx Subject: Re: Rexx description & history Message-ID: <1989Jun9.093850.13876@gdt.bath.ac.uk> Date: 9 Jun 89 09:38:50 GMT References: <25800@amdcad.AMD.COM> <12004@bcsaic.UUCP> <2568@bucsb.UUCP> <108789@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Reply-To: exspes@gdr.bath.ac.uk (P E Smee) Organization: University of Bristol c/o University of Bath Lines: 8 It is also claimed by IBM that there has never been a bug report accepted agains the REXX interpreter. As the story goes, whenever the author receives a note from a customer which complains that in some circumstances REXX behaves non-intuitively, he is able to explain (a) why it is in fact intuitive at a deeper level, and (b) why any of the alternative interpretations of a particular construct would have had undesireable effects in more common contexts of use.