cwpjr@cbnewse.att.com (clyde.w.jr.phillips) (10/24/90)
I have a bingo card from some mag that touts a version of REXX for unix machines. I've known of REXX being around IBM mainframe circles for a long time, and assumed it was "old hat". Yet this company is advertising their REXX clone by calling it: The IBM SAA Standard System Control Language Is this true? Are we more mainstrem than we think? Any other relevent comments? Thanbks, Clyde
giguere@csg.uwaterloo.ca (Eric Giguere) (10/24/90)
In article <1990Oct23.192639.11852@cbnewse.att.com> cwpjr@cbnewse.att.com (clyde.w.jr.phillips) writes: >The IBM SAA Standard System Control Language > >Is this true? Are we more mainstrem than we think? Any other relevent comments? Yup. IBM has chosen REXX as its SAA "Common Procedures Language". OS/2 1.2 includes a REXX interpreter.... I was flipping through the programming tech ref and it's a lot like the VM/CMS REXX, with SUBCOM interfaces and everything. So ARexx is definitely "mainstream" and a damn good implementation in fact. (IBM wants people to use REXX as a "glue" language to tie apps together, much like we're doing today with ARexx. Microsoft wants people to use BASIC, if you can believe it...) -- Eric Giguere giguere@csg.UWaterloo.CA
fhwri%CONNCOLL.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (10/25/90)
Re: The implementation of AREXX
Bill Hawes has noted that he's gotten registration cards from IBM, which
*obviously* means that IBM has Amigas within!
--Rick Wrigley
fhwri@conncoll.bitnethill@evax.arl.utexas.edu (Col. Ames and Pixel) (10/25/90)
In article <34467@nigel.ee.udel.edu> fhwri%CONNCOLL.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu writes: >Re: The implementation of AREXX > >Bill Hawes has noted that he's gotten registration cards from IBM, which >*obviously* means that IBM has Amigas within! > --Rick Wrigley > fhwri@conncoll.bitnet Even better -- Mark Riley of Sonix fame WORKS at or for IBM... -- adam hill "I will tell you three things.." hill@evax.arl.utexas.edu Make Up Your Own Mind.. AMIGA! Amiga... Multimedia NOW!! 24 Bit Color(n.) Large waster of bandwidth. "Amiga walk with me ........"
ssd@sugar.hackercorp.com (Scott Denham) (10/26/90)
In article <1990Oct23.192639.11852@cbnewse.att.com>, cwpjr@cbnewse.att.com (clyde.w.jr.phillips) writes: > Yet this company is advertising their REXX clone by calling it: > > The IBM SAA Standard System Control Language > > Is this true? Are we more mainstrem than we think? Any other relevent comments? > Yes, it's quite true, IBM is pushing their REXX across all of their product lines as their "standard" scripting/control language. What you should be aware of, though, is that SAA Rexx is a subset of ARexx, OR of any of the really useful IBM variants of Rexx, so most "real" REXX applications arent really all that portable. For example, all of the file I/O stuff is left to system-specific extensions; I don't know how similar these extensions are between the IBM platforms, but I do know that the I/O in MVS Rexx is nothing like the I/O in Arexx. Scott Denham > Thanbks, Clyde