On Mon, 16 May 2011 08:42:32 -0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
>In <listserv%[email protected]>, on 05/15/2011
> at 04:11 PM, Paul Gilmartin said:
>
>>certainly not in an interactive shell
>
>I'm not sure what you mean by an "interactive shell", nor why you
>would describe Rexx as being one, but there is nothing in Rexx that
>precludes compiling the entire file before executing any of it, and
>some implementations do just that. Rexx is a scripting language, not a
>shell.
>
I forked this fiber of the thread by musing:
http://bama.ua.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1105&L=ibm-main&P=80293
I've sometimes imagined Rexx as a shell language, but it has a couple
severe flaws: ...
We seem to be in considerably acrimonious agreement here. Because
you trimmed the essence of my remark, then disputed what remained
out of context.
-- gil
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