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Rexx: Power Through Simplicity (O'ReillyNet)

[Posted May 27, 2005 by ris]

O'ReillyNet covers Rexx. "Rexx was the first widely used scripting language. Though IBM invented it 25 years ago, it may come as a surprise that this language is more popular today than ever. There are now nine free and open source Rexx implementations. These run under virtually any operating system on any platform. All but one meet the Rexx language standard, and each has optimizations or extensions for a specific purpose."
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Rexx: Power Through Simplicity (O'ReillyNet)

Posted May 27, 2005 17:20 UTC (Fri) by ccchips (subscriber, #3222) [Link]

Before Microsoft decided to put all its muscle behing VBScript, I was hoping that they would develop a ubiquitous system language for their Windows platform. I had mixed feelings about it, but it seemed that REXX was a good choice for such things, and it was already a part of OS/2.

I enjoyed writing REXX code on the mainframe.

Rexx: Power Through Simplicity (O'ReillyNet)

Posted May 28, 2005 7:06 UTC (Sat) by chill633 (guest, #16013) [Link]

The implementation of Rexx on the Amiga (ARexx) was, even more than custom chips, the Amiga's most powerful feature. Other than games, virtually *every* piece of software on the Amiga was scriptable and controllable via ARexx.

You could link COTS programs like Art Department, Superbase and a frame grabber together with mind numbing ease and put together custom "middleware" stacks that rivaled packages costing tens of thousands of dollars.

Damn, does that bring back fond memories!


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