Heretic indeed! I've been a Rexx user for 35+ years, so I'm at least used to it. Have written entire products in it, published a book about it, so (surprise) I disagree.
I believe that Rexx's biggest weakness was that it came from IBM back when IBM was considered Bad by the non-IBM community. If folks had jumped on Rexx and written packages like they did for Perl, I like to think that it would have been as popular. It's certainly easier to learn and write (one of its design goals, of course). I always say I have "angry" Perl skills: not "mad skillz", but angry ones. Because whenever I'm forced to use Perl, I wind up pissed off at the language! .phsiii ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
