Rick McGuire wrote:
> The continued health of this project requires an active, growing
> community.
IBM let ObjectRexx off the leash about eight years late for that. If
ooRexx had
been open sourced before Ruby came forward ... sigh ...
It *is* a very small community and the language doesn't have a specific
mission.
* PHP does simple websites.
* Ruby does fancier ones.
* Perl does sysadmin and CGI.
What does ObjectRexx address that would have people flying around the
country to conferences
and embracing it like they do for Ruby and Perl?
The problem isn't so much that you need more of the techies who play
with OORexx already.
The problem is that you (we) need to enunciate a mission for ObjectRexx
and go recruit more
techies who stand behind such a mission into our little ObjectRexx army.
What can ObjectRexx do (aside from "be fun to program in") better than
the other
open source languages with established communities? Answer that and you
answer
our labor shortage.
For me the answer is, "It's a very easy scripting language and BSF4Rexx
<http://wi.wu-wien.ac.at/rgf/rexx/bsf4rexx/current/> made it the
easiest way to script Java." Until I started my own Open Source Project
PigIron <http://pigiron.sourceforge.net>
to provide Java access to z/VM SMAPI
<http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/zvm/v5r4/topic/com.ibm.zvm.v54.dmse6/hcsl8b30.htm>
I liked Object Rexx (since 1995) but had never
before found the value proposition to use it for anything real. Now I've
got a value
proposition, this complete ObjectRexx interface to z/VM SMAPI that
started as simply
a testing tool for the underlying Java code.
In the meantime, Rick, are you leveraging the (admittedly few) resources
that are already
at your disposal to try to get help?
* have you broken this down into some well-factored tasks/assignments
* are these tasks posted in the Tasks section of the ooRexx
SourceForge site?
* Do you have recruitment notices posted on SourceForge?
Also, why don't we try to convince editor Jon Erickson to hook you up
with a Guru blog
on Dr. Dobb's CodeTalk and you can publicize a bit and maybe draw some
users in there?
I've certainly been mentioning ObjectRexx there, e.g. Calling Java from
Open Object Rexx
<http://dobbscodetalk.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=706>
Maybe we can "start a buzz" as the youngsters say.
--
Jack J. Woehr # "Self-delusion is
http://www.well.com/~jax # half the battle!"
http://www.softwoehr.com # - Zippy the Pinhead
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