indra@hobbes.amd.com (Indra Singhal) (05/31/89)
In article <JODY.89May26084530@opus.shell.com> jody@opus.shell.com (Jody Winston) writes: >Is there a unix version of rexx available? This is something that I have meant to ask... any information would be very welcome I am sure. Indra K. Singhal either: indra@amdcad.AMD.COM __ or: {ames decwrl gatech pyramid sun uunet}!amdcad!indra /""\or: MS 167; AMD; 901 Thompson Place; Box 3453; Sunnyvale, CA 94088
paula@bcsaic.UUCP (Paul Allen) (06/02/89)
OK. I give up. This new newsgroup just showed up with a name that might be an acronym for Remote Execution. But it's clear from the traffic that I have no idea what rexx is! I would imagine that many Usenet readers have noticed the creation of the group, but have no idea what rexx is. So, does anybody want to volunteer to post a brief description of rexx so we will know if there will ever be anything of interest to those of us who are not VM or Amiga users? Thanks! Paul -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Paul L. Allen | pallen@atc.boeing.com Boeing Advanced Technology Center | ...!uw-beaver!bcsaic!pallen
ckd@bucsb.UUCP (Christopher Davis) (06/03/89)
In article <12004@bcsaic.UUCP> paula@bcsaic.UUCP (Paul Allen) writes: >OK. I give up. This new newsgroup just showed up with a >name that might be an acronym for Remote Execution. But >it's clear from the traffic that I have no idea what rexx >is! I would imagine that many Usenet readers have noticed >the creation of the group, but have no idea what rexx is. > >So, does anybody want to volunteer to post a brief description >of rexx so we will know if there will ever be anything of >interest to those of us who are not VM or Amiga users? Sure, I will... REXX stands for REstructured eXtended eXecutor. I believe that it was originally developed by employees of IBM in Britain (the language manual lists both CENTER() and CENTRE() as the same function... :-). Later, IBM added it to the VM/SP family of stuff (along with XEDIT and all of those things) and it is now the "VM/SP System Product Interpreter." As for the language itself, it is completely untyped, interpreted (at least as far as I've seen), and has some amazing string parsing abilities. [This last is reinforced by bad experiences I've had with COBOL... :-] >Paul >-- >------------------------------------------------------------------------ >Paul L. Allen | pallen@atc.boeing.com >Boeing Advanced Technology Center | ...!uw-beaver!bcsaic!pallen --Chris -- Chris Davis ! ckd@{bu-pub,bucsb,bucsf}.bu.edu ! Disclaimer: you know. Student Consultant ! smghy6c@buacca.{bitnet, bu.edu} ! I don't agree with BU Boston University ! ckd@bucsb.UUCP ! and they reciprocate. -- "I think I need a really good quote to put in my .signature." CKD --