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Article #256Re: Prototyping and the Development Process
From: Terry Gaetz (Astronomy, U. Weste...
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 1990 23:22
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 1990 23:22
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In article <11736@pucc.Princeton.EDU>, EGNILGES@pucc.Princeton.EDU (Ed Nilges) writes: [... discussion of benefits of REXX as a prototyping language deleted ...] > Although I lack a REXX to C translator and so in some sense recreate > everything when moving from REXX prototype code to C code, in another, > stronger sense the same code (same algorithms) run both in the proto- > type and the final version. > > Soooo....if you have REXX, use it. I understand it's now available > in OS/2 Extended Edition, the Amiga and unix. -- REXX is available for MS-DOS machines too: "Personal REXX" from the Mansfield Software Group. (Mansfield also sells KEDIT, a clone of IBM's XEDIT. KEDIT has a subset of REXX, called KEXX, built in as the macro processing language.) -- (No connection with Mansfield Software Group other than as an Extremely Satisfied KEDIT User.) Terry Gaetz -- gaetz@uwovax.uwo.ca -- gaetz@uwovax.BITNET
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!ria!uwovax!2011_552 From: 2011_552@uwovax.uwo.ca (Terry Gaetz (Astronomy, U. Western Ontario)) Newsgroups: comp.groupware,comp.misc,comp.sw.components,comp.software-eng Subject: Re: Prototyping and the Development Process Message-ID: <7046.26f7c56c@uwovax.uwo.ca> Date: 19 Sep 90 23:22:19 GMT References: <3839@se-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM> <33820@cup.portal.com> <1990Sep18.150322.17690@pdn.paradyne.com> <11736@pucc.Princeton.EDU> Lines: 21