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Title: REXX is 25 Years
Post by: jd997uk on March 24, 2004, 12:51:42 PM

Slashdot now has a thread on REXX's 25th birthday and some links to the 15th REXX symposium.



Read it here (http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/03/24/0034224)

Title: Re: REXX is 25 Years
Post by: cecilia on March 24, 2004, 03:53:23 PM

check out the comments about halfway down the page when they start talking about arexx on the amiga.... :lol:
remember the good old days?

I know some programmers don't care for arexx, but it was simple enough for me to make some scripts. so it had it's use!

Title: Re: REXX is 25 Years
Post by: Matt_H on March 24, 2004, 10:58:16 PM

Yep. Does what it needs to, is relatively easy to pick up, and has extremely low overhead.

Silly slashdot ;-)

Title: Re: REXX is 25 Years
Post by: MAD on March 25, 2004, 10:34:00 AM

Hoya!

Yeah, although I can't program, I do like it.
It is so good it should have been an Amiga invention! ;-)

Happy birthday Rexx! :pint:

Be funky

M A D

Title: Re: REXX is 25 Years
Post by: Targhan on March 25, 2004, 04:04:44 PM

ARexx rules, and we all know it.  Without ARexx there would have been no VideoToaster, ImageFX, nor many of the other apps we all know and love.  
There are a few differences between proper Rexx and ARexx, but from what I'm told Rexx is fairly portable.  Maybe we can see a next generation of Rexx through Regina on the open-source OS's.  

Will be glad when the PPC implimentation of ARexx is finished for MorphOS :-P

Title: Re: REXX is 25 Years
Post by: asian1 on March 26, 2004, 02:29:17 PM

Author (http://www2.hursley.ibm.com/mfcsumm.html)

The author of Rexx is voted as Bill Gates look alike from IBM (when he was young). There is a joke about the name: Tyranosaurus Rex, because first version run on old IBM mainframes.

Title: Re: REXX is 25 Years
Post by: redfox on March 28, 2004, 03:49:19 AM

I still like ARexx for doing scripts on my A2000HD. :-D

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