UserLinux chooses Python as "interpretive language" of choice

[John Roth]

"Dennis Lee Bieber" <wlfraed at ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
news:m4ofb1-123.ln1 at beastie.ix.netcom.com...
> John Roth fed this fish to the penguins on Saturday 20 December 2003
> 13:13 pm:
>
> > languages.) It grew beyond there, but not by all that much.
> > Part of it's quirky charm is the way that it's i/o system faithfully
> > mirrored the old VM/CMS system.
> >
>         That's the one feature the Amiga version did not duplicate <G>
>
>         Of course, since it was written to be a replacement for exec2, it
> probably was quite tied to the base capabilities of IBM's OS. But in
> that environment, REXX is essentially the equivalent of a shell script,
> not a program running independent of a shell.

Actually, it wasn't written as a replacement for exec2. It was originally
written for VM/CMS, and Exec2 was an MVT/MVS facility.

John Roth
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