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You can get a taste of the syntax from playing with REXX , which is an interpreted language that started on mainframes but has been ported almost everywhere.
by shrubble 2y ago
You can get a taste of the syntax from playing with REXX
, which is an interpreted language that started on mainframes but has been ported almost everywhere.
- pjmlp 2y agoAnd adopted as Amiga's main scripting language on its last years.
- ruslan 2y agoIn early 90th I was an OS/2 fanboy, I did a lot of automation in REXX. I'm not sure REXX syntax resembles PL/I which was then heavily used at the place I worked on "big iron". PL/I used to be more verbose, uppercased and aming SQL database work, methinks. REXX, on the other hand, was more like Perl and I felt quite comfortable with Perl when I switched OS/2 to FreeBSD. :)
- wglb 2y agoI don’t think REXX is like PL/I. And it does run on pretty much any IBM hardware and os