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	News : Open Source IBM Object Rexx is born
	posted by jd997uk on 9-Feb-2005 13:50:01 (2653 reads)

The Inquirer has a story regarding the first beta version published since going open source.

Relevance here? Well the licensing by C= of REXX is mentioned, as is the Amiga's usage of AREXX ports.

As a footnote, click on the link to find how inexpensive some of these implementations were

-john

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Re: Open Source IBM Object Rexx is born
Posted on 9-Feb-2005 13:57:43

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deja vu?

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Re: Open Source IBM Object Rexx is born
Posted on 9-Feb-2005 14:05:45

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Old news? :)

/Björn

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Re: Open Source IBM Object Rexx is born
Posted on 9-Feb-2005 14:09:34

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orgin: must be as i read this many moons ago, well it was here on aw too....

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Re: Open Source IBM Object Rexx is born
Posted on 9-Feb-2005 14:36:17

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@ Orgin

No, this story by the Inquirer about the first available beta being released is new.

The story you are probably referring to is: IBM release the code for object REXX

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Re: Open Source IBM Object Rexx is born
Posted on 9-Feb-2005 14:52:01

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I see.

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Re: Open Source IBM Object Rexx is born
Posted on 9-Feb-2005 15:59:00

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I do like (A)REXX.

Python is nice there is no doubt (I cannot be so kind about PEARL), but nothing beats (A)REXX for ease of use.

IBMs ObjectREXX is to my mind a bit of an abortion. Normal everyday REXX is there, you need never dip into OOPs, which is it saving grace, but the OOPs part is just not nice at all.

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Re: Open Source IBM Object Rexx is born
Posted on 9-Feb-2005 16:35:28

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well .. Perl is a fast language. When I say fast I mean the time it takes for you as a coder to get stuff working the way you want. Not fast as in fast :) .. besided that I have to agree with you. It's a mess.

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Re: Open Source IBM Object Rexx is born
Posted on 9-Feb-2005 18:26:17

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A little off topic - just found it:
They have mentioned the latest os4 update in the Inquirer: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=20417

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Re: Open Source IBM Object Rexx is born
Posted on 10-Feb-2005 9:01:59

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Hi everyone!!!

This is HUGE GINORMOUS news!!!

We could get not ONE, but THREE different Arexx's AND native OS4.0 PPC compiles!!!!

I hope someone's available to work on this. A bounty is in order, too, I'd guess.

Since access is available to the source code, could an Arexx compiler be made?

Wasn't Arexx not distributed with AOS3.0, 3.1, 3.5 and 3.9 due to non-payment of license fees? Now it's FREE!

AmigaOne! AOS4.0! Doesn't it seem to just keep getting better everyday, or what???

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