Re: [opensuse] REXX scripting language

* Hechler Family (dahechler@charter.net) [20080528 06:54]:

Coming from a 24 year mainframe and midrange background and being left hanging out to dry - slowly, why was REXX never made mainstream in Linux?

Because Unix/Linux had other choices. I don't know about the mainframe stuff, but os/2's cmd only had very limited batch features making REXX the choice for serious scripting. Linux had powerfull shells plus a diverse bunch of scripting languages, most prominently perl and python, so there wasn't much interest in REXX. Philipp -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org