"Nearly thirty years of growth haven't exhausted the potential of the REstructured eXtended eXecutor language. The first of the widely used 'scripting' languages continues to expand its capabilities and platform range, and it makes for a particularly good match with AIX."
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REXX seems to have been the kiss of death for innovative microcomputer systems. Two of the better bits of consumer computer technology (the Amiga and IBM's OS/2) both used REXX as their main scripting language. Both failed, leading me to think that REXX is sort of like the computer version of an appearance on the cover of "Sports Illustrated": very prestigious and very much a bad omen. (google sports illustrated cover curse for more info)
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>Don't confuse the scripting language with the o/s.
>Amiga and OS/2 died because of someone else, not
>because of the main scripting language.
It's a thing I still miss in Window, Linux and other OSes today....
AREXX was more than a main scripting language for AmigaOS, it was able to manage complex InterApplication communication and let ALL apps on the Computer to "collaborate" executing complex tasks.... Just ONE common (and pretty simple also for non geeks) language for ALL apps on the Computer from complex rendering Software to Messengers.... At that time (before PHP and similar) I had my email program managing my site updates from received form-email (including HTML composing and FTP uploads) in a few lines of code...
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