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From: bills@cca.CCA.COM (Bill Stackhouse)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: REXX ? As in Tyrannosuarus REXX ?
Message-ID: <12038@cca.CCA.COM>
Date: Wed, 7-Jan-87 12:04:22 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan  7 12:04:22 1987
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Reply-To: bills@CCA.UUCP (Bill Stackhouse)
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Poking and bashing bits are a weak excuse for using a low level language
even in an op. system. Even if you never want to port a program, you should
still use a HLL. For examples of HLLs in OP SYS, just look at the Buroughs
large systems. In the newer versions of the languages used, they added
systax so that a programmer could declare that they were about to do
something that was machine dependent. They even had some conditional
syntax so that you could say this is machine dependent and only for
a certian machine which was specified during the compile. At least
then you have some chance of locating what needs to change when moving
between incompatible machines.


-- 
Bill Stackhouse
Cambridge, MA.
bills@cca.cca.com