Rexx for Everyone

Posted by michael on Tuesday February 17, 2004 @07:43AM from the wrecks dept.

An anonymous reader writes "It's easy to get lost in the world of 'little languages' -- quite a few have been written to scratch some itch of a company, individual, or project. Rexx is one of these languages, with a long history of use on IBM operating systems, and good current implementations for Linux and other Free Software operating systems. Rexx occupies a useful ecological niche between the relative crudeness of shell scripting and the cumbersome formality of full systems languages. Many Linux programmers and systems administrators would benefit from adding a Rexx implementation to their collection of go-to tools."

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Rexx sucks. by rpresser · 2004-02-17 07:48 · Score: 0, Flamebait

I have spent more hours fiddling with Rexx syntax, trying to get it right, than any other scripting language including awk. It seems underpowered and unintuitive to me. Perhaps if it was my first scripting language I'd appreciate it, but having several already jostling around in my head ... ugh. Who needs more than three scripting languages, anyway?