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- From: jwrugo@raven.cybercom.com (John W. Rugo)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.rexx
- Subject: Re: HELP! --- Line Counting in OS/2 Rexx
- Date: 8 Feb 1996 22:59:53 GMT
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- In message <s793f8mjd2d.fsf@profit60.profit.ericsson.se> - Fredric Lonngren <e
- txfln@profit.ericsson.se> writes:
- :>
- :>>>>>> "PH" == Peter Hansen <peter@engcorp.com> writes:
- :>In article <changi0.9m.28dWWg$07E@engcorp.com> peter@engcorp.com (Peter Hansen) writes:
- :> PH> In <4f06c2$h85@news.internetmci.com>, ChristopherP.Scott.Scott@InternetMCI.com writes:
- :> >> I am writing a rexx program that needs to determine the total number of
- :> >> lines in a file.
- :>
- :> PH> This ought to be in a FAQ. REXX is best used as a mechanism for gluing
- :> PH> together other programs to perform special tasks. In cases like this,
- :> PH> you should find other tools that do the job you are trying to do with
- :> PH> REXX, and use REXX to manage the overall job and handle special
- :> PH> conditions.
- :>---
- :> PH> The template for this answer should really apply to all those people who
- :> PH> keep asking about things like sorting, string-replacement, and really
- :> PH> anything else where the solution has already been created by another
- :> PH> programmer. Stand on the shoulders of giants: use REXX as glue!
- :>
- :>Then we have different opinions about this and programming in general.
- :>Sure, sometimes you just want to get the job done as fast as possible
- :>and you can use/buy available solutions or parts of solutions. But
- :>often (and especially here since this is a programmer group) the
- :>question is not how to get the job *done*, but how the job *is* done.
- :>To learn and grow into a giant oneself one has to learn about things
- :>like sorting, string-replacement etc. I guess most of those asking
- :>here wants to know how to solve their problems using REXX to learn
- :>as programmers. If they just wanted to get their problems out of the
- :>way they could reassign to the economic department and buy packaged
- :>solutions (from the system department where some poor soul posts to
- :>Usenet to learn some more programming skills :-) .
- :>Learn the skills of the giants, become a giant yourself...
- :>--
- :>-- _
- :>// F r e d r i c L o n n g r e n etxfln@profit.ericsson.se
- :>// Ericsson. AXE Research and Development http://www.ericsson.com/
- :>// Adjunct Processor Development TN/UAB/I/TD T/F + 46 8 719 5226/1568
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- Well Said!
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- /------------------------------------\
- John W. Rugo
- jwrugo@raven.cybercom.com
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