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- From: jja@fnbc.com (Joseph Alotta)
- Subject: Re: Commercial alternatives to perl?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.210400.24997@fnbc.com>
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- Organization: First National Bank Of Chicago, Chicago IL, USA
- References: <7c-mmlb.jfh@netcom.com>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 21:04:00 GMT
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- > what features you want, but have you considered REXX? It has good
- string
- > handling functions, infinite-precision arithmetic, and associative
- arrays,
- > among other things (no regular expressions, alas). It's available
- > commercially on IBM's MVS and CMS (not much of an inducement, I bet), on
- > PC's, on Amigas, and on Unix. It may also be available on other
- platforms.
- >
-
- i think i'd rather stick needles in my eyes than program rexx. more fun
- too. :-)
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- joe alotta
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