Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!watdragon!crocus!rtczegledi From: rtczegledi@crocus.waterloo.edu (Richard Czegledi) Newsgroups: comp.lang.rexx Subject: Re: Hello? Anyone out there? Summary: How really and truly wonderful REXX is. It's special too. Keywords: rexx wow spiffy Message-ID: <15814@watdragon.waterloo.edu> Date: 10 Aug 89 03:59:28 GMT Expires: End of Time References: <1428@bruce.OZ> Sender: daemon@watdragon.waterloo.edu Reply-To: rtczegledi@crocus.waterloo.edu (Richard Czegledi) Distribution: comp.lang.rexx Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 22 Rexx? It's pretty fun. Really makes the amiga great. I'll be posting some scripts as soon as I find my UUencode. I'm writing a wild bbs program [to be released shareware] that just dusts everything. I've written AreaCode programs and a B-Tree system (simple). In addition to customizing the system to such an extent that upon boot up, I have the REXX program through interfacing with the RexxArpLib and Arp1.3 to open a pretty little window, with lots of pretty little gadgets that let me do whatever I like. Rexx has raised my development enviornment to one of the gods. It automaticaly handles backups, it dates them, and I can recall them with this type of syntax: r{bbs.rexx-last week.list} will list all my changes that I did last week, and the menu (being somewhat partly produced by my 'bbs' system's menu system) lets me perform diff's and searches on the data. All the old data is Zooed away on my backup disk. Rexx has all the feel of a good structured language, and plenty of power, it lets you do complicated things easily, and is just generaly special. Slow though. It ain't no speed demon. That's my capsule review. Buy the thing. It's lots of fun.