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Rexx Is Still Strong After 25 years
therexxman writes "March marks the 25th anniversary of the Rexx programming language, and to celebrate the Rexx Language Association is hosting the 15th Annual Rexx Symposium at the IBM Research Labs in Boeblingen, Germany, from May 2 to 6, 2004.
Full details of the Symposium can be found in the 2004 Rexx Symposium Announcement.
Many of the world's 'Rexxperts' will be in attendance including Rexx's founder, Decimal Arithmetic guru, and IBM Fellow, Mike Cowlishaw."
I thought it died off 65 million years ago.
but it's no FORTRAN.
The "Insert Quote Here" line is almost as predictable as inserting an actual quote.
Seeing is believing:
Rexx going strong.
Quem a paca cara compra, paca cara pagará.
It's this TV show with a dick-shaped spaceship. Don't worry, you haven't missed much.
punch-card lovers association held its annual conference and proclaimed punch-cards superior to all modern IDEs, compilers, editors and debuggers.
it wants its do loops back
say "Counting..."
do i = 1 to 10
say "Number" i
end
Yuck!
punch-card lovers association held its annual conference and proclaimed punch-cards superior to all modern IDEs, compilers, editors and debuggers.
... umm, no hardware failure, and zero down-time (if the sun is shining).
Punch cards are all good and fine.
But if you want real power in a computing machine, what you need is something like Stonehenge, which has the advantage of
-kgj
-kgj
amen. I do sonsulting work for internet startups on the side. A couple months ago, a company interested in setting up a b2b information gateway for effectively managing outsourcing resources asked for a language recommendation. The options were limited to rexx, cobol, snobol, fortran and MIX assembly. In the end, I recommended using cobol since it has the best reputation for flexibility and RAID. rexx was far too proprietary and limited to be of any use.
Ahhh Rexx... OS/2...
OS/2 is the future I say. Look at how much better it runs then Windows 3.1....
*snaps out of reverie, back into Microsoft dominated 2004*
Doh!
"Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better." - Unknown
At first I thought the title read Rexx is Still Wrong After 25 Years.
I was like, "Damn straight!"
Cheers,
Justin
main(O){10<putchar(4^--O?77-(15&5128 >>4*O):10)&&main(2+O);}
Many of the world's 'Rexxperts' will be in attendance
Such as Rooby-Rooby Roo.
Good Dog.
${YEAR+1} is going to be the year of Linux on the desktop!
some stuff to defeat the lameness filter.
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