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In article <398jfv$5co@csnews.cs.Colorado.EDU>,
Tom Christiansen  <tchrist@mox.perl.com> wrote:
>:-> In comp.lang.misc, imc@comlab.ox.ac.uk (Ian Collier) writes:
>:I know you are not a fan, but you might have at least mentioned the word
>:REXX in your article.  After all, it does (among several of the other
>:languages you mentioned) have an ambition to be the world's universal
>:scripting language, and it already has a monopoly to a lesser or greater
>:degree on VM/VMS, Amiga and OS/2 platforms.
>
>Yes, Ian, you're right.  I should have mentioned it.
>
>And what about new object REXX? :-)  Are you going to be making
>a nice freeware port so we (ok, they :-) don't have to use 
>proprietary IBM code?
>

May I mention *gasp* Microsoft and OLE-2 automation? To me the
idea of letting every application expose verbs and properties
looks very good. This way, one can program Microsoft Access in
Scheme, Tcl, Rexx, C or even Basic (Applications Basic anyone?).

  /Christer (wingel@hog.rydnet.lysator.liu.se)

>--tom
>-- 
>Tom Christiansen      Perl Consultant, Gamer, Hiker      tchrist@mox.perl.com
>    last|perl -pe '$_ x=/(..:..)...(.*)/&&"'$1'"ge$1&&"'$1'"lt$2'
>    That's gonna be tough for Randal to beat...  :-)
>            --Larry Wall in  <1991Apr29.072206.5621@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov>