Re: Number of languages known [was Re: Python is readable] - somewhat OT

From	Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>
Subject	Re: Number of languages known [was Re: Python is readable] - somewhat OT
Date	2012-04-02 18:05 -0400
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On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 08:48:53 -0700 (PDT), Steve Howell
<showell30@yahoo.com> declaimed the following in
gmane.comp.python.general:


> I agree with you on the overall point, but I think that Python
> actually does a fine job of replacing REXX and PHP.  I've used both of
> the latter (and, of course, Python).  REXX and PHP are great at what
> they do, but I don't think their slight advantages over Python justify
> all the weight they carry--incompatible syntax to Python, archaic
> libraries, missing modern language features, etc.
>
	REXX is inhibited by the architectures to which it has been ported
-- limiting the ADDRESS targets to variations of Python's os.system() or
popen() calls; even the subprocess module can't get beyond the all or
nothing execution model.

	Much different from the original IBM environment (and, biased, the
Amiga implementation may have gone beyond the IBM one in capabilities)
wherein compliant programs become the "command shell" for REXX command
processing -- actual bidirectional interactive interprocess
communication. Window's COM system offers some of that capability, but
buried in a cryptic object programming system -- nothing like having a
script sending the /same/ command that one would use in a text interface
to the target program.
-- 
	Wulfraed                 Dennis Lee Bieber         AF6VN
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Re: Number of languages known [was Re: Python is readable] - somewhat OT Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-03-30 01:03 +1100
  Re: Number of languages known [was Re: Python is readable] - somewhat OT Steve Howell <showell30@yahoo.com> - 2012-03-29 08:48 -0700
    Re: Number of languages known [was Re: Python is readable] - somewhat OT Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-04-03 07:50 +1000
      Re: Number of languages known [was Re: Python is readable] - somewhat OT Steve Howell <showell30@yahoo.com> - 2012-04-02 17:25 -0700
        Re: Number of languages known [was Re: Python is readable] - somewhat OT Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-04-03 17:12 +1000
    Re: Number of languages known [was Re: Python is readable] - somewhat OT Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2012-04-02 18:05 -0400

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