Nonsense. IBM created OREXX for OS/2 and m$ windows; ooRexx is the open source version that replaced it and is not limited to Unix-like systems. The builtin classes are highly useful outside on *ix.
There are a couple of issues, however, with completely replacing TSO/E REXX with ooRexx 1 . A few minor language incompatibilities. 2. The new 64-bit API. There would have to be a bridge. 3. Code page -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of Jon Perryman <jperr...@pacbell.net> Sent: Friday, June 20, 2025 12:57 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> Subject: REXX say & OOREXX was: In IBM-land, AFP means... External Message: Use Caution On Wed, 18 Jun 2025 22:59:44 -0700, Tom Brennan <t...@tombrennansoftware.com> wrote: >On 6/18/2025 8:43 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >> And in BASIC, "PRINT" (still) means "Display on Terminal." > >That still makes more sense than "SAY" in REXX What would be a better word than "SAY"? Not making sense is a good thing because it's environment dependent. UNIX stdout, batch sysout, TSO putline (I think), CICS & IMS ????, sysrexx ???? and more. In the past, someone asked for IBM to create an OOREXX. Writing OOREXX was the simple part of the design. IBM provides everything needed for each environment and it's up to the OOREXX developers to implement the desired environment compatible. Many of things we dislike with IBM REXX make it compatible. E.g. a member contains all the functions instead of including additional members like other languages. OOREXX was designed for Unix and written in C or C++. Simply put, there is no benefit to making OOREXX for TSO, IMS, CICS and ???. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
