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From: jerry@violet.berkeley.edu ( Jerry Berkman )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.cray
Subject: Re: REXX FOR UNICOS
Message-ID: <1989Aug15.010010.16811@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: 15 Aug 89 01:00:10 GMT
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Reply-To: jerry@violet.berkeley.edu ( Jerry Berkman )
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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In article <30469@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> jac@muslix.UUCP (James Crotinger) writes:
>
>  You can register my vote for a port of REXX to the Crays! I'm an
>Amiga user and have done quite a bit or REXX program on my machine.
>Infinitely better than COSMOS, the batch language we have here at
>NMFECC. (The programmer who maintains COSMOS is also an Amiga user
>and has also expressed a strong desire to have REXX on the Crays).
>
>  Jim

REXX may be better than COSMOS on CTSS, but that is irrelevant.
The question is is it better than the C shell and Bourne shell
which are distributed as part of UNICOS?  And is it better than
other shells likely to become a part of UNICOS, and how many shells
do we really need?  I find C shell adequate for most uses, and
Bourne shell if I really need efficiency.

Jerry Berkman
U.C. Berkeley