Re: [netrexx-pipelines] Migrate OS/2 pipelines to NetRexx Pipes

[J L. T. <jlt...@ma...>]

	IDEAL has also many of the same characteristics as Rexx.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DATACOM/DB#Applied_Data_Research

Leslie

On 2022-06-25 06:37:53 Jeff Hennick wrote:
> This readability is one of the factors that make Rexx such a standout
> language. From Mike Cowlishaw's The Rexx Language, Part 1 Background:
> SECTION 3: FUNDAMENTAL LANGUAGE CONCEPTS
> Readability
> If there is one concept that has dominated the evolution of REXX syntax, it
> is readability (used here in the sense of perceived legibility). 
> Readability in this sense is a rather subjective quality, but the general
> principle followed in REXX is that the tokens which form a program can be
> written much as one might write them in European languages (English,
> French, and so forth).  Although the semantics of REXX is, of course, more
> formal than that of a natural language,, REXX is lexically similar to
> normal text. ... Good readability leads to enhanced understandability, thus
> yielding fewer errors both while writing a program and while reading it for
> debug or maintenance. ...
>
> Jeff

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