REXX Lovers Unite! (was RE: OT! Re: [TriLUG] Defeated by a website..)

[Shane O'Donnell]

REXX (IMO) was Perl before Perl.  A powerful scripting language that had
some relatively deep hooks into the OS itself (especially OS/2), REXX had
the additional benefit of running on any platform in IBM's SAA, including
OS/2, AIX on RS/6000, OS/370, OS/400.

While working on my M.S., I wrote REXX that ran on three of the four
aforementioned OS platforms, and if I'd had access to an AS/400, it probably
would have run there as well.

REXX was user-friendly for the non-programmer, yet provided some interesting
hooks for utility work that programmers might have found useful--in many
ways, it ended up being positioned as a ".bat" extension tool.  There was
also a 3rd party commercial visual IDE with drag/drop GUI tools to build
dialog boxes, etc.  For '93/'94, when the only alternative was VB, it was a
great tool.

Then again, versus VB, many things are great tools.

Shane O.

-----Original Message-----
From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On Behalf
Of Steve Litt
Sent: Friday, December 31, 2004 9:02 AM
To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
Subject: Re: OT! Re: [TriLUG] Defeated by a website..

On Thursday 30 December 2004 08:47 pm, Greg Brown wrote:
> OS/2 was the best operating system on the planet.  In 1993.  I can only
> wonder how good it would be today had development continued.
>
> LONG LIVE REXX!!!!!

Greg,

I've programmed in C, C++, Java, Perl, Python, Clarion, RBASE, Powerbuilder,

Pascal (including Turbo and Turbo Object), but I missed REXX. What are the 
advantages of REXX?

SteveT
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