Re: REXX? (was: PL/I Visibility)

[Vern Hamberg <hambergv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Don

At 05:46 PM 11/4/97 -0500, you wrote:
>
>I think so...I'm not a REXX'er...hunt for the CRTREXPGM and see what ya
>get....

Oh, you should be!  :^)

Seriously, REXX is positioned as a substitute/extension of CL. It's
structured and has tremendous text-handling functions. Data typing is
automatic by context, which has its good & bad points, of course. It _is_
ubiquitous on IBM platforms. Associative arrays (indexed by names, not just
numbers) are possible—something like PERL.

You don't create a REXX program. It's actually interpreted, although there
is some optimization done if your source member type is REXX—byte-code kind
of thing, I think. You use the STRREXPRC command, or you specify the source
member when creating a command, with CPP of *REXX.

I like it. It's the best thing for certain tasks, especially text-related.

Long live the KINGG!

Vernon Hamberg
Systems Software Programmer
Old Republic National Title Insurance Company
400 Second Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55401
(612) 371-1111 x480


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