“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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No more than another yet scripting langage.
Rexx is a great scripting language, no doubt! I’ve seen great things done with Rexx under AmigaOS.
Now, I wonder why someone would choose Rexx over say “Perl”?
Just my thoughts, from a former AIX Admin.
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)
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.
Unlike the Sports Illustrated cover curse, where teams ARE actually affected by the shiny piece of paper…
Sorry, the original poster was just being funny. I think humor is one of those things that doesn’t often translate into text.
>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…
IBM should have _marketed_ Rexx years ago to compete with Basic. They didn’t. Then they tried Object Rexx to see if they could catch up. Sure, one can run Rexx on Unix. But why do that when you have shell, awk, perl, built-in?
Not to mention Python! 🙂
only a few days ago I thought, Gee, I haven’t seen recently any “Let me introduce you to REXX” postings. And here we go (again).
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