Amiga Rexx

From: John Foust <jfoust_at_threedee.com>
Date: Mon Nov 9 10:18:14 1998

At 04:43 AM 11/9/98 -0500, Doug Spence wrote:
>
>I've only used ARexx a few times myself. The syntax is quite ugly, IMHO.
>And it's slow. It also bugs me when applications programmers are too lazy
>to add features into the programs themselves but include Rexx commands to
>let you do it.

It was easy to add ARexx commands to match the menu selections in
your programs. Slow? Did that matter? It's an interpreted language.
With inter-process communications, you can be tied up more by
context switching and the resolution of the multitasking interrupt
more than anything else - so you don't know what part was "slow".

At 09:38 PM 11/7/98 -0800, Zane H. Healy wrote:
>
>AREXX = Amiga REXX not really sure much about it. I believe it's used a
>lot for scripting. IBM is the only other company I can think of to use
>REXX.

REXX has such a free-form syntax. Pick up Colishaw's IBM REXX book
and look at the average Amiga REXX program, and you'd hardly guess
they were the same language.

I believe Bill Hawes, maker of Amiga REXX, now works at Silicon
Valley's favorite mystery company of the moment, Transmeta.

- John
Received on Mon Nov 09 1998 - 10:18:14 GMT