Excerpted from message dated 05-06-95, Peter Yao to Murray Lesser:

 PY>I don't know any other language that bombs itself if the condition
  >falls out of the covered cases in the CASE/Select statement.  It's
  >more like a series of if-then-else-if-then and do nothing if it's not
  >matched.

 ML> If your major problem is typos in variable names, you should stick
 ML> with a "strongly typed" language.  Unlike REXX, Pascal
(for example)

PY>If I have a choice between the two within the OS/2 env I'd go Pascal!

Peter--

    As I mentioned in my previous post to you, unlike most programming
languages, the REXX philosophy is that the programmer knows what he/she
is doing until the action during execution demonstrates otherwise--in
which case REXX quits on you, then and there, telling you why it quit.
If you use Select, you have to play by the rules.  If you prefer
if-then-else, you are free to use that construct.  If you don't know
what you are doing, you are free to use another language.

    Check in with the OS2PROG FIDO echo.  Apparently, there exists a
32-bit OS/2 Pascal compiler.  Its drawback may be that the documentation
is in German.

    Good luck,

          --Murray
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