In article <mailman.1885.1265261952.28905.python-l...@python.org>, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: >On 3 Feb 2010 08:38:47 -0800, a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) declaimed the >following in gmane.comp.python.general: >> In article <mailman.1585.1264743912.28905.python-l...@python.org>, >> Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: >>> >>> I shall blaspheme, and suggest that maybe the language you want to >>>use is REXX (ooREXX or Regina). >>> >>> By default, ANY statement that can not be confused for a REXX >>>language statement is sent to the currently defined command handler >>>(Which on most OSs is equivalent to Python's os.system() call; the late >>>Amiga, and IBM's mainframe OS had features that support defining other >>>applications as command handlers). >> >> How is that different from bash scripting? > > Uhm... Does a bash script support inlining statements from some >other language? > > Python's shutil library essentially disappears in REXX as one can >plug in the native command line statement for those functions.
But in bash scripting, you'd just use rsync or cp or rm -- maybe an example would make clearer how REXX differs from bash. -- Aahz (a...@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ import antigravity -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
