No. I don't hate REXX. In fact, I had an absolutely grand time using AREXX to script up all kinds of bizarre things on my Amiga, like using the progress percen

No. I don't hate REXX. In fact, I had an absolutely grand time using AREXX to script up all kinds of bizarre things on my Amiga, like using the progress percent of an FTP client as the parameter to some image program or another (ImageFX maybe?) to generate a bolt of lightning that grew from one corner of the screen to the opposite as my modem chugged away. It was neat and I love playing with it. But, outside an environment like that where it was integrated into practically every major program running on the system, I wouldn't want to have to rely on it again. Programming languages that get rid of all the rules impose their own kind of mental overhead, and I'm not smart enough to be 100% detail-oriented 100% of the time. It was still awfully cool. AppleScript is probably the closest modern, widely available similar language I can think of.