Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!liuida!isy!tegen From: tegen@isy.liu.se (Claes Tegenf{lt) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: looking for interpreter / macro language facility Message-ID: Date: 27 May 91 11:41:24 GMT References: <1991May22.153052.30224@wpi.WPI.EDU> <54366@nigel.ee.udel.edu> <1991May23.185900.17839@watson.ibm.com> Sender: news@isy.liu.se (Lord of the News) Organization: Dept of EE, University of Linkoping Lines: 23 oasis@gary.watson.ibm.com (GA.Hoffman) writes: >REXX is a very good choice of languages for string manipulation and >command construction... looping and handling condition codes are >also very well done. REXX is available from many vendors for VMS, >DOS, and unix. You forgot one important one! The Amiga implementation: AREXX. This is one of the most successful implementations of REXX, almost all new programs on the Amiga supports AREXX, can any other machine make that claim? The very magnitude of the AREXX success on the Amiga *may* have helped to convince other manufactures to consider REXX for their machines. I would say that even IBM has underestimated the potential of REXX, the Amiga community has discovered it... /Clas -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Clas Tegenfeldt | tegen@isy.liu.se | "Magic cooking software". | -------------------------------------------------------------------------