First of all, thank you all for your feedback on the text!
On 23.12.2022 14:41, Sahananda Sahananda wrote:
Just a reminder, we have the ooRexx Announcements list on Sourceforge with 26
members
Ah, would not have realized that, thank you very much! :)
So suggesting:
* RexxLA member list
* oorexx lists: developer, support, announcements
* bsf4oorexx lists: developer, support
Maybe someone with the editing power can also update the RexxLA landing page and link to the
announcement on the RexxLA site, after uploading it there?
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Here the current (edited) text:
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Subject: Announcing the Release of ooRexx 5.0.0
The ooRexx (open object Rexx) team is pleased to release ooRexx 5.0.0 and
make it generally
available to the world via the web from
<https://sourceforge.net/projects/oorexx/files/oorexx/5.0.0/>.
ooRexx is the object-oriented successor to IBM's famous Rexx language which
remains easy to
learn, easy to program in and easy to maintain, thanks to keeping up the "human
centric" design
principle. The "Rexx Language Association (RexxLA)"
<https://www.rexxla.org/> is the owner of
the source code, originally donated by IBM in 2004 and improved considerably
and continuously
since then.
Rexx programs can be run unchanged with ooRexx 5.0.0 and can be gradually
augmented with the
many beneficial new features ooRexx 5.0.0 brings to the table, like
redirectable commands from
and into running Rexx programs, new and helpful classes like the RexxInfo
class, new ability to
annotate programs (packages), routines, classes, methods and attributes,
ability to easily
define multiline strings (e.g. for SQL statements, boiler plate text, base64
encoded binary data
...) and many more.
Among the notable improvements are numerous bug fixes compared to its
predecessor ooRexx 4.2.0,
noticeable speed improvements over ooRexx 4.2.0 and much more useful
functionality. Please
consult the file docs/CHANGES.txt for more information.
After downloading ooRexx 5.0.0 and installing take a look into the samples
directory which
contains programs that demonstrate some of its capabilities. The Windows
version has numerous
examples that demonstrate how to interact with Microsoft Office, Apache Open
Office/LibreOffice
and many of the Windows infrastructures taking advantage of their OLE
(Object Linking and
Embedding) interfaces.
To get more information and support you can use the ooRexx Sourceforge project's
"Tickets" or
"Mailing Lists" infrastructure.
In addition you may consider to joining the non-profit "Rexx Language Association
(RexxLA)" for
free at <https://www.rexxla.org/members/index.rsp?action=join> where Rexx
experts of all kind of
Rexx interpreters on all important operating systems are already members,
including the language
creators and implementers.
So download the brand new ooRexx 5.0.0 and start to explore it! Have fun and
enjoy!
The ooRexx team, cyberspace, December 23rd, 2022
P.S.: Please, if you can, make all of your friends, all of your colleagues
and the media you are
interested in aware of this great event for ooRexx 5.0.0 (a short e-mail is
quickly done)!
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