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		josteink on Nov 28, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Unix's technical history is mostly old now > I really liked Rexx (IBM’s scripting language which they brought into OS/2, but is now pretty much dead) I’m not sure if it is the same, but back in my Amiga-days we had Arexx which I thought was an amazing tool to do tool-automation. To this day I haven’t seen anything quite like it. The closest is P to ably Windows and COM, but nobody likes that ;)

dhosek on Nov 29, 2022 [–]

Yes, the Amiga Rexx was based on IBM’s Rexx. I don’t know if they coded it to be compatible or licensed code from IBM.

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