Re: UserLinux chooses Python as "interpretive language" of choice
From: Dennis Lee Bieber (wlfraed_at_ix.netcom.com)
Date: 12/21/03
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Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 20:09:21 GMT
John Roth fed this fish to the penguins on Sunday 21 December 2003
04:57 am:
>
> Actually, it wasn't written as a replacement for exec2. It was
> originally written for VM/CMS, and Exec2 was an MVT/MVS facility.
>
From Cowlishaw's chapter "REXX Origins" (in "The REXX Handbook", 1992
McGraw-Hill):
"... This style, while adequate for simple commands, proved cumbersome
for the large and complex programs and macros that were soon being
written in EXEC 2. It became clear to me that a new language was
needed, one based on the more classical syntax and semantics used by
languages in the tradition of ALGOL, PASCAL, and PL/I, yet including
the command and string programming facilities that EXEC 2 had proven to
be so effective and powerful."
That sure sounds like an attempt to replace EXEC 2 to me... <G>
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