On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 07:26:31AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Still (somehow) alive in neo-Amiga platforms like AmigaOS4.x, MorphOS > > and AROS. I know that's as good as dead but there are still people > > writing AREXX glue code. > He asked about REXX, not AREXX. There is no comparison between the two as > AREXX was a huge superset of REXX.
Never seeing a proper REXX I always assumed it's just Amiga port retrofitted to serve as OS' needs as IPC language. You learn everyday. > If, when anyone here was using an amiga, and was using EzCron to schedule > stuff, Jim Hines and I wrote it as there was no such scheduler for > amigados. I used few cron-like daemons and the name rings a bell! > Trivia bit: William Hawes, who wrote AREXX and sold it thru the commode > door sales channels, was never paid a dime for his work. There are still problems with AREXX copyright/distribution, but as you can guess after few changes of hand Amiga's IP is mess. AROS, begin FOSS reimplementation of AmigaOS API, uses Regina to replace AREXX http://regina-rexx.sourceforge.net/ -- vag·a·bond adjective \ˈva-gə-ˌbänd\ a : of, relating to, or characteristic of a wanderer b : leading an unsettled, irresponsible, or disreputable life -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
