[Info-vax] Unix and DCL shells

[Bob Eager]

On Wed, 10 Jan 2024 00:11:24 +0000, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

> On 9 Jan 2024 23:57:19 GMT, Bob Eager wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, 09 Jan 2024 20:34:57 +0000, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>> 
>>> On 9 Jan 2024 08:49:07 GMT, Bob Eager wrote:
>>> 
>>>> But at that point I use other labguages.
>>> 
>>> Which I have done. But, you know, it turns out bash has one or two
>>> more useful capabilities up its sleeve than you might give it credit
>>> for.
>> 
>> Oh, I've examined the documentation (and books) in detail. But by that
>> time, I'd been using REXX for years, and it does all I need. It's
>> surprisingly powerful.
> 
> I had a look at the Wikipedia overview
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rexx>, and I see it gushes a lot over the
> PARSE statement, but it doesn’t seem to have regular expressions. Is
> that overview out of date?

REXX is a sparse language. But it has lots of libraries, and there are 
regexp libraries.

Personally, I think regexps are overrated! And I first started using them 
in 1975.