RE: Scoop on v5r3 CL enhancements

--- Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> GA, have you played with REXX much?  It's a ridiculously powerful
> language along the lines of a Perl or Python.  It's interpreted, which
> means it can do lots of great stuff like creating variables on the fly,
> including arrays.  It has great string parsing capabilities, and you can
> pass internal variables to OS/400 commands.  It has subroutines and
> functions, as well some pretty decent looping constructs.
> 
> I've been mucking about with it for just a couple hours today, and even
> with the learning curve of a new syntax I was able to put together some
> stuff that would have taken me all day in CL.  It's especially nice
> about allowing you to pass a whole 
> 
> Joe

"... pass a whole" what?

Ah, yes, CL's forgotten cousin.  

Yeah, I really should check it out.  As soon as I have a few hours to
play.

GA

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