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- From: giguere@csg.uwaterloo.ca (Eric Giguere)
- Subject: Re: Stealing ideas from Unix (was Re: Blanks, REXX, and portability...)
- Message-ID: <Btx37M.sK@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>
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- Organization: Computer Systems Group, University of Waterloo
- References: <BtwuwM.CB1@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca> <1992Sep1.210452.1@sejnet.sunet.se>
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 20:50:09 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep1.210452.1@sejnet.sunet.se> ERIC@SEARN.SUNET.SE writes:
- >I've re-read my posting 3 times and I frankly can't see where it supposedly
- >says that mine is better than yours. All I see is a statement that it is a
- >pointless effort to attempt to port a large REXX application from system X to
- >system Y, because REXX (like all scripting languages) is full of system
- >commands (like LISTFILE, EXECIO, COPYFILE, ls, grep, mv) which generally work
- >only on one system. And the reason I pointed it out is that it is not obvious
- >to many people, especially people with a lot of experience in "traditional"
- >languages. A 25-30k lines FORTRAN 77 program written for CMS is probably much
- >easier to port to unix than to rewrite from scratch, this is true of most
- >standardized languages, but it doesn't work with REXX, no matter how compliant
- >your interpreters are.
-
- Sigh. I wasn't commenting on your _specific_ posting, just the general
- tone that this "blanks" debate has taken on at times.
-
- And you're right about REXX scripts being mostly unportable. Certainly
- I couldn't port my ARexx scripts to CMS. Not unless I also ported all
- the applications that use those scripts.
-
- --
- Eric Giguere giguere@csg.UWaterloo.CA
- So is Windows NT short for "Windows, NOT?"
-