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- Subject: Re: REXX compared to perl
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.213754.12128@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz>
- From: russell@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Russell Fulton)
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 21:37:54 GMT
- References: <MUTS.92Sep14092931@ruunfs.fys.ruu.nl> <CKD.92Sep14111129@loiosh.eff.org> <1992Sep14.212752.5419@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz>
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- russell@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Russell Fulton) writes:
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- >It's a couple of years since I used REXX on a VM system so my experience
- >may be out of date (Given the speed at which IBM moves, I doubt it:-)
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- >Rex did not have Regular expressions, or associtative arrays - two
- >things that are the essence of perl. Nor did it have the direct access
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- Well things have moved in the two years since I worked on VM systems,
- either that or my memory has faded. Several people have pointed out that
- REXX *does* have associative arrays.
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- Russell Fulton, Computer Center, University of Auckland, New Zealand.
- <rj_fulton@aukuni.ac.nz>
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