Re: Running SQL command in a CLLE program

[vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx]

I see REXX having some similarities to Perl, esp. the associative array kinds 
of things where the array index is a string, not a number. Pretty cool!

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From: "Dave Odom" <Dave.Odom@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 

> Dave, et al, 
>
> Joe Pluta said it very well. REXX is very powerful, is the standard 
> utility language across all IBM platforms, can be used to do entire 
> applications, has MANY books (over 400 at Amazon.com) and articles 
> written about it since the '70s (yes, mainly for the mainframe but its 
> easy to modify for the i5), easy for folks to learn. Folks that are 
> familiar with languages such as Java, C, PL/I and the like will see a 
> similar style. When I was at IBM, many of our "home grown" applications 
> were done in REXX, especially those that needed any sort of matrix or 
> string manipulation or and we called the various DB2s. 
>
> Yep, its interpreted but VERY fast and I'll wager as fast as most CLPs. 
> I often create CMD files that invoke the REXX program so I don't have 
> to do the Start REXX command. 
>
> As Joe said, "the overhead is minimal". 
>
> Take care, 
>
> Dave 
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