On Mon, 14 May 2018 00:03:30 -0400, Phil Smith III wrote: > >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 call that weakness a tie with lack of regular expressions. There's a similar bias in the IBM community to consider regexen Bad.
Concerning language competitions, I've long wondered how PL/S would have fared against C on a level playing field. But that case is closed; stare decis. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
