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From: xrtnt@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov (Nigel Tzeng)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Arexx(help!)
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Date: 9 Apr 90 13:44:22 GMT
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In article <2159@grape3.UUCP>, king@motcid.UUCP (Steven King) writes...
^I've had experience with Rexx on IBM mainframes, where it was born and
^raised.  ARexx seems to be quite a faithful implementation, and is in some
^ways easier to use.  (Ever try to use EXECIO on an IBM mainframe?  *shudder*)
^The manual that comes with ARexx is an excellent reference manual, but
^it's NOT a tutorial.  Personally, I perfer learning from reference manuals,
^but that's not for everyone.  And like I said, I already knew Rexx before
^I laid eyes on ARexx...
^ 
^While I said ARexx is best for short little scripts, I don't mean to imply
^that that's all it's good for.  I've seen some truly incredible uses of
^Rexx on the IBMs, including a full-featured multi-user chat host program
^and several end-user chat programs.  Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but
^I think the RELAY code on Bitnet is written in Rexx.  It's quite powerful
^once you get the hang of it.
^ 

If I remember correctly the early RELAY code was written in EXEC2 (I might
actually have some on hardcopy somewhere...yuk) and later when Rexx appeared
at more sites it was done in Rexx.  I remember those days...

Ah wait: Amiga Content - 

I just bought ARexx and my Rexx is a bit rusty (always did EXEC2 becuase it ran
faster)...do you know of a tutorial I can run through? 

Thanks,

Nigel Tzeng

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