Well, I wouldn't call it English-like, and the semantics of signal are confusing, but if you're familiar with any other block-oriented language than REXX shouldn't be confusing, except for things like being used to different nomenclature, e.g., case rather than select.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of Phil Smith III <li...@akphs.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 8, 2019 3:47 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Unreadable code (Was: Concurrent Server Task Dispatch issue multitasking issue) On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 3:42 PM Seymour J Metz <sme...@gmu.edu> wrote: >REXX write only? I beg to differ. Yes, it has a few quirks, but I find it >eminently readable. Indeed. It's English-like and about as readable as any programming language gets. Unless Tony meant "Because it Just Works, I never have to go back and look at it again"? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
