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From: paolucci@snll-arpagw.UUCP (Sam Paolucci)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Macro languages
Message-ID: <157@snll-arpagw.UUCP>
Date: 15 May 88 20:58:35 GMT
References: <8805140029.AA03459@jade.berkeley.edu>
Reply-To: paolucci@snll-arpagw.UUCP (Sam Paolucci)
Organization: Sandia National Labs, Livermore
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In article <8805140029.AA03459@jade.berkeley.edu> SLMYQ@USU.BITNET writes:
>>AREXX is a macro language.  With its IPC port, it allows a 'standard'
>>macro language among applications.  It's what Bill Gates wants.
>>The Amiga has it today.
>
>Glad to hear it.  However, as I hear, AREXX is commercial.  We need
>a PD version, and Commodore would need to put it on the Workbench
>disk if it is to become completely standard.  Although I haven't
>seen it, it sounds good - all we need is a PD version.
>
>>..Bob
>>--
>>Bob Page, U of Lowell CS Dept.  page@swan.ulowell.edu  ulowell!page
>
>
>                                Bryan Ford (SLMYQ@USU.BITNET)
>
>P.S.  Where can you get it?  How much $?

I don't get it.  If Commodore is going to put it in the Workbench disk, it
is surely not going to be PD!  PD software is nice, but when it comes to
IPC the most important part is that it is going to be supported.


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