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Date:	Wed, 9 Feb 2005 17:35:50 PST8
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Programming: Open Source Object Rexx

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A rather newsy Open Source Object Rexx (oorexx) writeup at the
Brit-based Inquirer (I believe writer Fernando Cassia is in San
Francisco):

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=21161

I followed a number of links from the article, mostly to SourceForge
where the project has a home. The Jan2005 status looks promising. Then
I downloaded the 5 MB .zip which contains the PDF documentation files.
There's a gzip which I presume contains the source, and if anyone wants
to try compiling for OS/2 the sponsor (RexxLA) would probably appreciate
it.
_____

Here's my own programming theory: Eventually somebody will take all the
various programming languages and create a "unified theory" of
programming. The different languages will be the "quarks" of this
unification, and a master compiler/interpreter will read a source code
mishmash of any odd combination of keywords and syntaxes, issue warnings
where appropriate, and execute the program. Certainly this is the
"bigger is better" principle which most programmers frown on, but as far
as I can see everybody keeps designing new "simpler is better" languages
which never have everything you need in them.

Lynn: I'm trying to start an argument here. Would you like to partake?

- Peter

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