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From: mayne@VSSERV.SCRI.FSU.EDU (William (Bill) Mayne)
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Subject: Public domain rexx?
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Date: 1 Sep 90 13:55:48 GMT
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I should note that many of the things I would use Rexx for don't
involve system dependent interfaces. I like it as a general purpose
language, especially for manipulating symbolic data. Many of my
Rexx programs never submit a command to the operating system or
other environment. That being the case, I am interested in C source
code (preferably partedly maintained through lex and yacc) for at
least a subset Rexx interpreter. This could then be compiled on
any Unix system. Preferably there should be some hooks to add
system dependent stuff, but as I said, just being able to use
Rexx as an alternative to awk for some jobs would be nice.

Has anyone seen such a beast? If none exists in the public domain
I may try to develop one, time permitting. Any suggestions or
collaborators? What features do you think would be most important
for such a portable Rexx, given that the full blown language may
be too much to take on? Want to push for GNU-Rexx?