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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
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Date: 10 Aug 89 03:59:28 GMT
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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.