On Wed, 3 Jul 2024 16:11:45 +0000, Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote:

>. > z/OS REXX on the other hand automatically integrates into most available 
>environments.
>No. Various applications are REXX-aware, 
> and they would continue to be so were IBM to make ooRexx a supported 
> scripting language.

There is no such thing as REXX-aware. You register your product's REXX callable 
routines and environment. Your product uses various REXX API's (e.g. 
variables). Is ooRexx a complete replacement for IBM REXX? With it's Java 
requirement, does CICS now support calling JAVA programs? How about products 
that support REXX but not JAVA?

ooRexx would be a terrible language for automation because automation loses 
control of storage management. Those oop features come at a cost. If your 
product isn't essential then ooRexx is fine but can be a huge problem for 
system critical products.

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