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From: UH2@psuvm.psu.edu (Lee Sailer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: REXX
Message-ID: <90240.155808UH2@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: 28 Aug 90 19:58:08 GMT
Organization: Penn State University
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According to this weeks INFO WORLD, IBM is planning to release REXX as
part of the software development kit distributed with OS/2.  It is
quite hilarious to read what the IW journalists make of this---will
it replace Basic, or COBOL, they ask?

In the IBM mainframe world, REXX is a very important part of the glue that
allows users to develop systems.  Curiously, even in that environment, REXX
is not as powerful as Amiga's AREXX.  I think this is because with the Amiga
it is common practice to get separate processes to talk to one another via
their REXX ports, while in the IBM mainframe world a user does not
have the ability to do this.  OS/2 certainly *could* be set up like
AREXX, but I don't know if it will be.

One of IW's pundits dismissed REXX as a "glorified .BAT language".  Boy!
I'll say.

         lee