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I believe Rexx was also quite popular on the Amiga! That platform was otherwise very much the spiritual opposite of what IBM represented back in the 1980s.
by pavlov 4y ago
I believe Rexx was also quite popular on the Amiga! That platform was otherwise very much the spiritual opposite of what IBM represented back in the 1980s.
- buggeryorkshire 4y agoYup, it was called arexx but was really nice.
- coldacid 4y agoSo nice that Commodore actually bought it off the developer and shipped it with later releases of AmigaOS. It's not just a great way to automate a lot of Amiga apps (since most, both commercial and "PD", had ARexx support) but also a useful IPC mechanism on the platform.
- actionfromafar 4y agoIt was like another world what you could do with Arexx, because So. Many. Program. had support for it. Only what I started using Linux in 1995 one could do similar things (but in a much more clumsy and shell, pipes and commands-kind-if-way.) I think PowerShell is the spiritual successor to Arexx. (Because you could do GUI stuff in ARexx and script GUI programs!)!