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Offline jd997ukTopic starter

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REXX is 25 Years
« 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
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Re: REXX is 25 Years
« Reply #1 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!
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Re: REXX is 25 Years
« Reply #2 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 ;-)
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Re: REXX is 25 Years
« Reply #3 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:

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Re: REXX is 25 Years
« Reply #4 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
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Re: REXX is 25 Years
« Reply #5 on: March 26, 2004, 02:29:17 PM »
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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.
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Re: REXX is 25 Years
« Reply #6 on: March 28, 2004, 03:49:19 AM »
I still like ARexx for doing scripts on my A2000HD. :-D

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