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- From: hardiman@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Paul V Hardiman)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
- Subject: REXX for Windows
- Date: 27 Jan 1993 23:22:42 GMT
- Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
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- Originator: hardiman@csd4.csd.uwm.edu
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- brian@jaguar.cs.utah.edu (Brian Sturgill) writes...
-
- BS>OS/2 does have one feature that NT doesn't that you might need... REXX.
- BS>If you need an imbedded scripting language, then REXX fills that
- BS>niche rather well, NT will eventually have ObjectBasic to fill this
- BS>need, but it's not there yet.
-
- Brian and everybody, just out of curiosity - is there anything
- (technically or legally) that prevents someone from implementing
- REXX under Windows NT? How about the same question for the variant
- of REXX I've been hearing described as "visual REXX"?
-
- (Note that I've never seen *either* variant of REXX in action, but
- that I've seen lots of approving comments about them in the OS/2
- conferences.)
-
- Bert Tyler (bert.tyler@satalink.com)
- ---
- . DeLuxe./386 1.25 #343sa . Did you expect mere proof to sway my opinion?
-
- A company called Kilowatt Software in California has a REXX implementation
- for Windows 3.1. They claim they will have an NT version early this year.
-
- I don't have any more information handy, but if anyone is interested, I'll
- dig it up at home and post it.
-
- Paul Hardiman
- University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
- hardiman@csd4.csd.uwm.edu
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