I mentioned AmigaDOS and its support for REXX just a week or two ago to one of the architects at work.
Have been working with "Rexx/Tk" to do graphics with REXX for a class that I am teaching. Tk started as an add-on to Tcl, but is now used with many languages, including Perl. -- R; <>< On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 19:49, Rodger Donaldson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 07:21:31PM -0500, Gabe Goldberg wrote: >> Mike Cowlishaw, developer of the REXX language, author of several books, >> and IBM Fellow for quite some time, will take early retirement from IBM >> March 5. It's hard to exaggerate -- or even grasp, really -- how much >> REXX changed IBM computing and how those lucky enough to know REXX get >> their work done. > > Funnily enough I first encountered REXX when it became the standard > scripting language in AmigaOS around 1990, where it had the > novel-to-me property of being able to script and control GUI functions > in programs. > > -- > Rodger Donaldson [email protected] > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
