Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!ima!mirror!cca!bills 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 Article-I.D.: cca.12038 Posted: Wed Jan 7 12:04:22 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 8-Jan-87 04:42:58 EST References: <1184@navajo.STANFORD.EDU> <637@argus.UUCP> <696@hoxna.UUCP> <649@argus.UUCP> <973@cuuxb.UUCP> Reply-To: bills@CCA.UUCP (Bill Stackhouse) Organization: Computer Corp. of America, Cambridge, MA Lines: 16 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