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Re: Distributed LISP
Posted on 16-Aug-2004 6:36:23
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| This is kind of cool.. Is AREXX avalible for any other OS than AmigaOS? I know "rexx" is, but is AREXX? (What is the difference anyway?)
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Re: Distributed LISP
Posted on 16-Aug-2004 9:14:42
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This is kind of cool.. Is AREXX avalible for any other OS than AmigaOS? I know "rexx" is, but is AREXX? (What is the difference anyway?)
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Uh... doesn't the "A" in "ARexx" stand for "Amiga"? - i.e. Amiga Rexx? 
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Re: Distributed LISP
Posted on 16-Aug-2004 14:01:53
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Re: Distributed LISP
Posted on 16-Aug-2004 17:52:30
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Is AREXX avalible for any other OS than AmigaOS? I know "rexx" is, but is AREXX? (What is the difference anyway?)
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Rexx was introduced by IBM in the early eighties (IIRC). ARexx is the Amiga implementation of Rexx.
There are very few differences between Rexx and ARex. Tthe only thing I can remember right now is that ARexx has both INDEX() and FIRSTPOS() (both functions do the same job) while Rexx only knows FIRSTPOS(). Of course, the famous 'Arexx message ports' are Amiga specific aswell.
Unfortunately, Rexx is pretty much dead nowadays. It's still used in IBM's OS/2 (I think they call it 'eComStation' now), but that's dead aswell  |
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Re: Distributed LISP
Posted on 17-Aug-2004 21:06:22
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Well, the important thing about Arexx was never the language, it was the easy access to message ports. So any language where this could be added in a clean way (that means no need to shuffle pointers and structs in C around, please) would be potentially very useful.
Like for instance Python, it has both an Arexx port handler and an Arexx client handler. Unfortunately it doesn't look like it'll be part of OS4 
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Re: Distributed LISP
Posted on 18-Aug-2004 20:47:23
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| Whatever happened to the "Sheep" scripting lanquage that was tooted as the replacement of arexx a while ago?
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Re: Distributed LISP
Posted on 19-Aug-2004 16:42:10
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