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Rexx for Everyone

Posted by michael on 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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  1. Sorry, but.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    REXX bites.

  2. New language .... Diamond by sashang · · Score: 0, Troll

    I'm gonna make a new language. I'm gonna call it Diamond (cos a Diamond is better than a Ruby). It will be more elegant than Python, have more features than tcl and be easier to maintain than Perl. Then I'll be famous and the fame will masturbate my ego and make me hard. People will love me like Michael Jackson.