A lot of the syntax comes from PL/I, although not the use of a continuation character and not the use of labels (no, signal is not a goto.)
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of Paul Gilmartin <0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2019 9:27 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Unreadable code (Was: Concurrent Server Task Dispatch issue multitasking issue) On Thu, 10 Jan 2019 19:30:41 -0500, zMan wrote: >Semicolons?😀 > (My laptop doesn't speak emoji.) Semicolons, yes, but: do <=> { end <=> } switch <=> SELECT ... I think Rexx got much of its lexical flavor from PL/I. But that's easy for me to say becase I don't know PL/I. >On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 6:48 PM Steve Smith wrote: > >> REXX is lot like C? I can't think of anything they have in common beyond >> the minimum basics of any procedural language. Bless Rexx for making ';' and newline very nearly interchangeable, in contrast to POSIX Shell script, where they aren't. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
