#351 REXX, The Developer’s Best Friend
An article about REXX, published in EDM/2 The Electronic Developer Magazine for OS/2, March 1995, Volume 3 Issue 3.
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REXX, The Developer’s Best Friend - a quick look at REXX, the Bassett hound of programming languages.
This article was published in EDM/2 The Electronic Developer Magazine for OS/2, March 1995, Volume 3 Issue 3.
Recording it here for posterity!
In retrospect, REXX really was a clunky scripting language, hobbled by mainframe and DOS-isms that we gladly do without these days!
The Scripts
- INFICONS.CMD
- search for INF files on disk, and create icons for them in a folder
- LINE.CMD
- prints the specified line number of a file to the screen
- NEWPROJ.CMD
- new project setup from template
- QUOTE.CMD
- formats lines for inclusion in C/C++ or REXX procedures.
- STUBS.CMD
- Program Code Stub Creation
- TAIL.CMD
- prints the last ‘x’ lines of a text file to the screen.