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Originally Posted by thirdm
Does Rexx take long to learn?
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Given your exposure to other languages, you shouldn't experience an undue learning curve. Rexx is similar in syntax to Modula-2 or Ada -- in other words, Pascal-ish.
Rexx comes from the IBM world circa 1970s' - '80's. As I recall, it was developed in the branch office in England, & proliferated to the point of becoming IBM's glue language used on all supported platforms. Flexible? Yes, but I don't think it ever gained much traction outside of the IBM world. In fact, I haven't heard much about Rexx ever since OS/2 faded into the sunset.
There are a number of tutorials which can be found online; one place to begin is Wikipedia's article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rexx
One of the more concise implementations of Tic-Tac-Toe I saw in one of Cowlishaw's books, but if I am recalling correctly, this wasn't necessarily due to anything inherent to Rexx, it simply was a nice, short implementation.
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I was half considering scouting around for a new scripting language...
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While Rexx has been ported to a number of
(non-IBM) environments, I don't see an OpenBSD port. I also have no idea as what would be required to see one of the existing implementations to run on OpenBSD.