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- From: ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis)
- Subject: Re: REXX compared to perl
- In-Reply-To: muts@fysap.fys.ruu.nl's message of Mon, 14 Sep 1992 07:29:36 GMT
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- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 15:11:33 GMT
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- PM> == Peter Mutsaers <muts@fysap.fys.ruu.nl>
-
- PM> When reaeding 'SAS compared to perl' an article of M. Haley (spelled
- PM> correctly?) came to my mind; his articles are reprinted in a dutch
- PM> computer magazine. He stated that for all administration tasks one
- PM> should use REXX as it is the only one which is supported on all
- PM> platforms.
-
- Except for those platforms on which it's not supported. And since it's
- proprietary you have to *buy* the ports for many systems. It does come
- with VM/CMS though :-)
-
- PM> Now this person is quite biassed towards old fashioned (but proven)
- PM> technology which is used in financial and administrative environments
- PM> and I don't trust such statements a lot, but still I became curious
- PM> about it. Is REXX something similar to perl, and if so how do they
- PM> compare?
-
- It's similar. It's basically VM-PERL (hehe ;-) though it's been ported
- to the Amiga and other systems. It doesn't have anywhere near the
- string-handling capabilities that perl does (I literally had to
- implement rot13 by listing the entire alphabet 4 times, because it
- doesn't support ranges). It's used for a lot of the same sorts of
- things perl gets used for, often by default, since it is the best/only
- script language on many systems.
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