Re: Storing Numeric Values in the Database

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Agreed. Using REXX as a command-processing program is a dream - mixed 
lists and all are almost automatically parsed - fantastic! And for text 
processing, there's almost nothing better - certainly on the i.

I have been working with a friend, with using REXX as a CGI language - 
it's pretty clean - but it lacks the ability to retrieve environment 
variables, and calls to service program procedures can't be done. So a 
couple supporting RPGLE programs, and ba-da-bing!

Although I do like REXX, it's not something we'll put into our products. 
There just isn't a justification for yet another language that only one 
person in the company knows, and good luck finding another developer 
with the knowledge!

Later
Vern

On 9/4/2011 10:34 AM, John Yeung wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Vern Hamberg<vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
> > Hey, who knows, might try to
> > educate the world next about REXX!!
> No need to duck for that!  REXX is actually a pretty nice language.  I
> don't think you could ask for better integration with CL on the
> AS/400, so it's really a great "scripting language" in the most
> literal sense.  But I guess that's a topic for another day, in another
> thread.
>
> John