posted by Anonymous on 15-Oct-2004 15:51:26 (2358 reads)
" As part of IBM's continued support of the Open Source community, Object REXX has been provided by IBM to the REXX Language Association (RexxLA). The code is now available under an open source project from RexxLA under Common Public License (CPL) V1."
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Joined: 28-Apr-2003 Posts: 1797
From: Perth Australia
Beware Object REXX is not just REXX.
Yes it will do REXX without much bother (and it does lack some Amiga specific aspects of AREXX -- but no biggies). However, there is a lot more to it and that worries me. The "Objective" side is not a good one, turninmg good old fashioned readable REXX into another and I think syntactically incompatible master lanuage.
MY sugesstion (which may not even be possible) is to strip-out the old Fashion REXX (which should be tolerably well written) and forget the rest.
The beauty of REXX is its simple serial nature, Object REXXobliterates this -- one of the reasons I think that Object REXX never really caught on and has now been made Public.
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Re: IBM release the code for object REXX Posted on 16-Oct-2004 9:35:13
Joined: 10-Mar-2003 Posts: 731
From: Espoo, Finland
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The "Objective" side is not a good one, turninmg good old fashioned readable REXX into another
Hmm.. I don't know ObjectREXX so i can't say anything sure. But is it really like you say ?
I don't see any reasion why it still could not be as much readable code as original REXX code. PHP (and more so PHP5) can be used object oriented way too and PHP code is still plain text. Objectoriented language can also be interpreted language, and PHP is an good example of that.
I think that ObjectReXX could be good for us because it could increase reusability of the REXX and Arexx code.
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