Re: looking for interpreter / macro language facility

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From: Claes Tegenf{lt
Date: Mon, 27 May 1991 11:41

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oasis@gary.watson.ibm.com (GA.Hoffman) writes:

>REXX is a very good choice of languages for string manipulation and
>command construction... looping and handling condition codes are
>also very well done.  REXX is available from many vendors for VMS,
>DOS, and unix.

You forgot one important one! The Amiga implementation: AREXX. This is
one of the most successful implementations of REXX, almost all new 
programs on the Amiga supports AREXX, can any other machine make that
claim? The very magnitude of the AREXX success on the Amiga *may* have
helped to convince other manufactures to consider REXX for their machines.

I would say that even IBM has underestimated the potential of REXX, the
Amiga community has discovered it...

   /Clas

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