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” Rexx is a scripting language that was invented at IBM years
ago. The Linux community has largely ignored Rexx, but I believe it
could play an important role in Linux’s challenge to the Windows
desktop. How can a language many in the Linux community have never
even heard of be valuable in Linux’s fight for the desktop?

“In many ways Rexx is a predecessor to the open source scripting
languages that play such a prominent role in Linux. Like many of
those languages, Rexx is free, portable, widely used, and
standardized…”


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