Python

[Paul Ratcliffe]

On Tue, 29 Aug 2000 16:46:42 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:

>> Skip e-mailed me the script he had very kindly written but
>> unfortunately it won't work for me because it was written for the
>> OS/2 brand of REXX and I am running PMMail 2000 on NT.
>
>    ROFL!!!!  Oh, this one is good.  Any people are teasing me about 
Perl and
>Python?  At least in those two languages anything that would be needed 
to do
>the work are almost guarenteed to be portable across versions.

One of the nice things about REXX is that users can 'extend' the 
language with libraries e.g. REXXUTIL. Obviously, these are OS 
dependent. I would bet this is the problem, not any basic portability 
problem with the language itself.