AREXX is cool in theory, but getting to learn it is a bit of a pain. I find the AREXX book is a tad annoying. Its quite good at teaching you to make simple stand alone programs, but when it comes to making a script for DPaint 5 to send a picture to ImageFX for conversion to jpg, or something, its flawed. We do need a new and upto date way of doing this. Yes it needs to support AREXX as theres loads of cool stuff out there, but we need a new language. Somthing powerful and easy to code in. If novices can use it then the computer could be perceived as being more powerful.
If that makes sense WAHOO, cause I`m about to go to bed. :-)