REXX
A programming language, by Mike Cowlishaw, that has had some success as a scripting language and/or glue for various functionality among OS/2 and Amiga users.The language uses the classic syntax and semantics of Algol's family and PL/I, plus some interesting features, such as arbitrary precision platform-independent arithmetics, an original yet unified treatment of arrays and user defined structures, powerful mechanisms to deal with exceptions, and the possibility of dynamically modify the code that is being executed.
As Perl, is well equiped to deal with strings and text files. Maybe not fit to undertake heavy software projects, but those who used it consider it an interesting language.
- Mike Cowlishaw home page at IBM Hursley Laboratories WWW2 server.
Also see his General Decimal Arithmetic page:Most computers today support binary floating-point in hardware. While suitable for many purposes, binary floating-point arithmetic should not be used for financial, commercial, and user-centric applications or web services because the decimal data used in these applications cannot be represented exactly using binary floating-point.
- The Rexx Language Association.
- Amiga University's Arexx pages, about Amiga REXX.
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