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  1. REXX RULZ! by ArhcAngel · · Score: 2 · on Is It Worth Learning a Little-Known Programming Language?

    You can't go wrong with REXX

  2. Voice of reason by ArhcAngel · · Score: 1 · on Ask Slashdot: Best Rapid Development Language To Learn Today?

    REXX is what you want. I could make arguments why but this article does a decent job. I'll get lambasted for recommending such a dinosaur for recommendations to a modern language but if the tool works who cares how old it is? In fact the latest version of the Regina interpreter for REXX was released just last week. If nothing else read up on some of the ways REXX has been used to "GLUE" other systems/ programming languages together. It should be just what you need to tackle those tricky situations that nobody around you will care about but make your day a living nightmare.

  3. REXX by gilbertopb · · Score: 1 · on Best Reference Site For Each Programming Language?

    From mainframe to PC. I used this language a lot: IBM REXX: http://www-01.ibm.com/software/awdtools/rexx/ The Rexx Language Association: http://www.rexxla.org/ Regina Rexx Interpreter: http://regina-rexx.sourceforge.net/

  4. REXX was also available for Amiga...and others... by xxxJonBoyxxx · · Score: 4, Informative · on Keeping the OS/2 Flame Alive
    "...the REstructured eXtended eXecutor (REXX), an interpreted programming language known for its ease of use..."

    REXX was also available for Amiga...and others...
    See: http://rexxla.org/Links/

  5. Rexx is best. by Wargames · · Score: 1 · on Best Language for Beginner Programmers?

    In my opinion, the best procedural programming language, by far, for beginners (or anyone else for that matter) is Rexx. http://www.rexxla.org/

    No one (except possibly a terrorist that we NEED information from) should be subjected to Perl.

  6. A Lightweight REXX. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Lightweight Languages Workshop Webcast from MIT

    Of course Object REXX isn't mentioned.

  7. Re:Sure is! by rah1420 · · Score: 1 · on Rexx Is Still Strong After 25 years

    with no info anywhere about what Rexx is.

    You might have looked in the wrong places.

    Why not try The REXX Home Page at IBM?

    Or the Rexx Language Association home page?

  8. Ported to Linux quite a while ago by westfieldscientific · · Score: 1 · on eComStation 1.1 Entry Edition Review


    among other platforms.

    Check it out here

    Here is another good link if you're sufficiently interested.

  9. Blatent errors of fact by therexxman · · Score: 1 · on The Hundred-Year Language
    Its a shame that people who write articles like this make general sweeping statements that are completely false.

    When someone did, unexpectedly, take this paper and translate it into a working Lisp interpreter, numbers certainly weren't represented as lists; they were represented in binary, as in every other language.

    Rexx does not store numbers in binary, it stores them as decimal numbers, just the way that humans deal with numbers. This is why Rexx is one of the few languages that can actually do simple maths accurately. Have a look at General Decimal Arithmetic.

    The author's next paragraph goes on to say: Could a programming language go so far as to get rid of numbers as a fundamental data type?

    Like Rexx has had for 24 years??? It only has one datatype; a string.

    Or earlier in the articale; also related to doing arithmetic without a number datatype... Logically, you don't need to have a separate notion of numbers, because you can represent them as lists: the integer n could be represented as a list of n elements. You can do math this way. It's just unbearably inefficient.

    Again he's describing Rexx, except that it is far from being unbearably inefficient.

    For those who are interested in a 100-year language that has several of the features in this article, and has already made it a quarter of the way to 100 years, look at The Rexx language Association.
    I'd suggest that at least the author go and have a look.

  10. Sure Linux can do that. by Bishop · · Score: 2 · on RIP: Betty Holberton, Original Eniac Programmer

    Of course you can do that under linux. IBM Object REXX for Linux or other REXX for Unix.

  11. Re:How about REXX? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Do You Remember Bob?

    REXX isn't as dead as you might think. There are 5 commercial versions for Windows platforms, at least 2 commercial versions for Unix, and 3 Open Source versions for just about any platform you care to mention. An ANSI Standard for the language was published in 1996. For you Java programmers, NetRexx ( based heavily on Rexx) is a language that produces Java Byte code, and the Java bigdecimal class is essentially Rexx standard arithmetic. See the Rexx Language Association for more.