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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
