Rexx interface design goals

The design goals for a Rexx interface are the same as the design goals for a programming language. I used the ones from Horowitz's Fundamentals of Programming Languages, section 2.1, with two caveats:

• Some of them are dropped, because they don't apply in an ARexx environment.
• Some have been modified to be more applicable to the extension language that is an ARexx interface, instead of to a complete language.

The goals set forth there are that the language be:

1. complete.
2. well defined.
3. consistent.
4. readable.

On to evaluations, back to what is arexx, or up to the contents.