On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > On 25 Nov 2011 00:04:04 GMT, Steven D'Aprano > <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> declaimed the following in > gmane.comp.python.general: > > >> My Linux system includes compilers or interpreters for C, Pascal, >> Haskell, Forth, Python, Ruby, PHP, Javascript, Java, bash, csh, zsh, sh, >> awk, sed, Perl, SQL, Tcl, Tk, OpenXion, and very likely others. Most of > > What? No REXX? <G> > > {Granted, other than IBM's mainframes, the only decent REXX > implementation [heck, maybe even better] was the Amiga version -- it was > integrated well into the Amiga message passing IPC system, such that > pretty much any application with an ARexx port could connect to and > control any other application with an ARexx port}
IBM's non-mainframes too - their OS/2 implementation was - and still is - awesome. I use REXX for a variety of odds and ends, everything from simple scripts up to full-on GUI applications. Yes, we still use OS/2 (as well as Windows and Linux - mixed LANs are fun). ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list