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O'Reilly on the Virtues of Rexx

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the langauges-that-time-forgot dept.

gaijincory writes "O'Reilly's ONLamp has written an interesting article on the history and virtues of Rexx, the first widely used scripting language concocted 25 years ago. According to the review, 'Rexx employs decimal rather than binary arithmetic' and 'You don't need to declare or predefine your variables. Rexx automatically allocates them when you first refer to them.' I'd be interested to hear about any success (or failure) implementation stories."

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  1. first? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    first!

  2. Worst thread ever by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Boring

  3. From Monty Python: by screwthemoderators · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The Dead Body That Claims It Isn't: I feel happy. I feel happy. [the Dead Collector glances up and down the street furtively, then silences the Body with his a whack of his club] Large Man with Dead Body: Ah, thank you very much. The Dead Collector: Not at all. See you on Thursday. Large Man with Dead Body: Right.

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    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signature_bloc
  4. Gang a bong by glrotate · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Get it on!

  5. How long... by ultrabot · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ... are we going to pretend that rexx isn't dead?

    I mean, perhaps this romantic nostalgia should just be gotten over with at some point.

    There are better alternatives around these days, with significant developer communities.

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    Save your wrists today - switch to Dvorak
    1. Re:How long... by skimitar · · Score: 0, Offtopic
      That's a good point .... This is just computational necrophilia to fill a gap in an otherwise slow news day.

      And another thing (very OT!) why is my default firefox RSS feed bookmark suddenly being banned by slashdot? All I did was click the RSS icon at the bottom of that dang fireyfox doodad on th' interweb. Twas months ago....Now I am being told slashdot hates me and my headline reader is banned. Should have written it in Rexx?