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From: don@chopin.udel.edu (Donald R Lloyd)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.rexx
Subject: Re: REXX compiler
Message-ID: <17105@chopin.udel.edu>
Date: 11 May 91 15:24:39 GMT
References: <91May10.180707edt.8742@orasis.vis.toronto.edu>
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In article <91May10.180707edt.8742@orasis.vis.toronto.edu> green@vis.toronto.edu (Anthony Thomas Green) writes:
>Any guesses as to how big the Amiga REXX community is? I am just finishing
>up a REXX compiler (well... ok, it compiles REXX to C (and is called
>REXXTACY! Get it?)) for OS/2 and am considering porting it.
>

	 I think you'll find the Amiga AREXX community to be fairly large, 
especially now that AREXX is bundled with the OS (on every A3000 currently,
and is the upgrade is supposed to be available in June/July).  ARexx support
is also becoming pretty much a requirement for applications to be considered 
'serious'.
     Be warned, though, that you'll be competing with an existing PD ARexx
compiler (though I haven't the slightest idea how good/bad/ugly it is).

>BTW - Any interested beta testers?
>
     Of an Amiga port, sure... maybe by the time it's ported I'll have actually
found the time to learn to program in ARexx myself rather than just using
other people's pre-written scripts :-).


     

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