Looking for a scripting language

[Christopher Browne]

In an attempt to throw the authorities off his trail, claird at starbase.neosoft.com (Cameron Laird) transmitted:
> In article <m3wuujz3hz.fsf at chvatal.cbbrowne.com>,
> Christopher Browne  <cbbrowne at acm.org> wrote:
>>Your list should also include Ruby, and it's probably also worth
>>taking a _quick_ look at REXX which is more mature than any of the
>>other options out there.  (I first ran into REXX back before Perl
>>existed as a language; it was vastly preferable to EXEC2, which was
>>the typical alternative...)
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> But Rexx still doesn't have ("native") COM or SOAP
> facilities, right?  

Probably not.  Those weren't factors in my mind, but I did say
"_quick_ look," after all.

> My speculation about the original questioner's circumstances is that
> he'll love all the access Mark-assisted Python gives him to Win*
> innards, to the point that, even apart from Python's other virtues,
> he's certain to prefer it on that ground alone to Rexx.

He'd also prefer Ruby and Perl to Rexx on roughly the same grounds.
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