Python 2.2.2 on OS/390 V2R10

[Dennis Lee Bieber]

John Roth fed this fish to the penguins on Sunday 03 November 2002 
03:37 pm:

> 
> That's actually one of the things I dislike about it. It's a major
> philosophy
> difference: to me, scripting languages are built around the assumption
> that
> the purpose of the script is to issue system commands, and the
> remainder of the language is in a supporting role. It leads to real
> interesting language
> design problems, especially in extensibility and understandability.
>
        Well, consider the history then... REXX was created because Cowlishaw 
didn't like what /was/ available on IBMs of the time -- EXEC2.

        If one considers it that way, REXX is closer to being a UNIX/Linux 
/shell processor/. After all, what is a bash script, but system 
commands wrapped with a form of conditional logic...

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