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I know of #Rexx ( and some of its dialects such as #Regina, #OORexx, #NetRexx, #Roo, and #Arexx ), but #Rex is entirely different: https://www.rexify.org/
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I remember that I once embarked on a quest to find a universal login scripting language. That was when I started using #Rexx, but it didn’t fit the bill (it was one of the earliest glue languages, so most things one might want to do in such a script relied upon system functions, rather than the script engine itself).
There are, of course, too many underlying differences for such a solution to truly be viable (though I’m wondering whether WSL might be usable to partially approximate such a thing).
Anyway, it was an interesting quest and I learned some things during the process.
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@musicman Oh, cool. I've never gotten to deal with them. Are you getting an overview of #Rexx (scripting language on IBM systems), too?
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#ARexx ... I never saw or touched an #Amiga, so everything I've heard about ARexx is hearsay.
I have used Regina #Rexx (which I think is pretty close to the ANSI standard for the language) and #OORexx and should probably renew my acquaintance. But I found Regina punted too often to the shell / environment. If I wrote a script and tried to use it on two different computers, it often failed because so much depends on throwing unknown commands upstream.
Later scripting languages have a more full set of built-in commands, so they can run reliably on a wider variety of systems.
I never fully adapted to stem variables, either. I think I would have liked them better if the language also had regular arrays and dictionaries (keys and values).
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@awg I'm still a bit of a #Rexx fan. I still remember downloading Regina and ooRexx and trying to grok stem vars.