Re: Running SQL command in a CLLE program

I see REXX having some similarities to Perl, esp. the associative array kinds 
of things where the array index is a string, not a number. Pretty cool!

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From: "Dave Odom" <Dave.Odom@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 

Dave, et al, 

Joe Pluta said it very well. REXX is very powerful, is the standard 
utility language across all IBM platforms, can be used to do entire 
applications, has MANY books (over 400 at Amazon.com) and articles 
written about it since the '70s (yes, mainly for the mainframe but its 
easy to modify for the i5), easy for folks to learn. Folks that are 
familiar with languages such as Java, C, PL/I and the like will see a 
similar style. When I was at IBM, many of our "home grown" applications 
were done in REXX, especially those that needed any sort of matrix or 
string manipulation or and we called the various DB2s. 

Yep, its interpreted but VERY fast and I'll wager as fast as most CLPs. 
I often create CMD files that invoke the REXX program so I don't have 
to do the Start REXX command. 

As Joe said, "the overhead is minimal". 

Take care, 

Dave 
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