Hi there,
the Rexx Language Association (https://www.RexxLA.org) has announced the 35^th International Rexx
Language Symposium to take place in Brisbane (Greenbank), Qld, *Australia* and online between March
3 and March 6, 2024, which is an opportunity to meet with Rexx developers in person in Australia
this year.
As the Rexx community encompasses the mainframe world, presentations for mainframe Rexx are welcome,
so this would be an opportunity to share your mainframe Rexx expertise with others. Here the call
for presentations: <https://www.rexxla.org/document.rsp?base=events&year=2024&doc=cfp>, please
consider to offer a presentation. (Should you employ the s390x version of ooRexx then it would be
interesting to learn about it and lessons learned as well!)
So, maybe in Australia in person or digitally!
---rony
P.S.: RexxLA is a non-profit organization based in the U.S. that owns the source code of quite a few
Rexx-related software including interpreters (e.g. the source code of ooRexx which can be traced
back to IBM's source code of its Object REXX product which IBM handed over to RexxLA for further
development and for distribution as open-source and became ooRexx). RexxLA's membership consists of
Rexx users and developers on practically all operating systems at all experience levels. As the
RexxLA-membership has become free it may be interesting for Rexxers in this list to join with
others, some of which have a mainframe background. Among other things you will be in a community
with Mike F. Cowlishaw (the father of Rexx and NetRexx), Mark Hessling (Regina, an open-source Rexx
interpreter, available also for Hercules), Rick McGuire (ooRexx, I think, he is the only person that
has implemented a Rexx interpreter for every IBM operating system) and many more. Homepage:
<https://www.rexxla.org>, join page: <https://www.rexxla.org/members/index.rsp?action=join> (you
can only join if you are able to answer a Rexx related question ;) - to fight robots).
P.P.S.: Today a new beta of BSF4ooRexx850 (a bi-directional ooRexx-Java bridge, camouflaging Java as
ooRexx) got announced which is planned to be released at the symposium if no showstopper bugs
appear. The installation zip archive for BSF4ooRexx850 supports s390x (but also all versions of
Linux, Windows and macOS) out of the box such that if you have the s390x version of ooRexx you can
use that immediately to exploit everything that Java has available (without a need to learn Java at
all). You therefore become immediately able to exploit even mainframe specific Java class libraries,
as well as any other third party Java class library there is!
In case you are curious and want to check out what that powerful combination allows for here two
URLs: ooRexx <https://sourceforge.net/projects/oorexx/files/oorexx/5.0.0/> (look for "s390x" in the
ooRexx download link name) and BSF4ooRexx850
<https://sourceforge.net/projects/bsf4oorexx/files/beta/20240109/>. After installation look-up
BSF4ooRexx850/samples/index.html for a brief explanation of the numerous samples demonstrating what
becomes possible with this powerful combination. Both technologies are open-source and tested (e.g.
there is currently no known error for BSF4ooRexx850).
It is likely that a presentation on the new BSF4ooRexx850 will be given at the International Rexx
Language Symposium in Australia with Q&A (like "850" in the package name denotes the minimum level
of Java 8 (850%100) and ooRexx 5 (850//100/10)).
--
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Prof. Dr. Rony G. Flatscher
Department Wirtschaftsinformatik und Operations Management
Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik und Gesellschaft
D2c 2.086
WU Wien
Welthandelsplatz 1
A-1020 Wien/Vienna, Austria/Europe
http://www.wu.ac.at
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