9 Nov
1998
9 Nov
'98
5:18 a.m.
At 04:43 AM 11/9/98 -0500, Doug Spence wrote:
I've only used ARexx a few times myself. The syntax is quite ugly, IMHO.
And it's slow. It also bugs me when applications programmers are too lazy
to add features into the programs themselves but include Rexx commands to
let you do it.
It was easy to add ARexx commands to match the menu selections in
your programs. Slow? Did that matter? It's an interpreted language.
With inter-process communications, you can be tied up more by
context switching and the resolution of the multitasking interrupt
more than anything else - so you don't know what part was "slow".
At 09:38 PM 11/7/98 -0800, Zane H. Healy wrote:
AREXX = Amiga REXX not really sure much about it. I believe it's used a
lot for scripting. IBM is the only other company I can think of to use
REXX.
REXX has such a free-form syntax. Pick up Colishaw's IBM REXX book
and look at the average Amiga REXX program, and you'd hardly guess
they were the same language.
I believe Bill Hawes, maker of Amiga REXX, now works at Silicon
Valley's favorite mystery company of the moment, Transmeta.
- John