Along with his usual informed opinions, Mike Cowlishaw described some of his current research efforts. This more » prompted some discussion of REXX under the Macintosh, probably the last frontier for REXX. Both implementations demonstrated the ease in which REXX was able to create GUI applications. Two flavors of REXX under MS/Windows were presented by Edc Giguere and Charles Daney. Also, the Workstation Group announced a free run-time version of their Uni-REXX available to any educational institution. Alberto Villarica and Anders Christensen announced two free versions of REXX for UNIX. There was a great deal of interest regarding REXX in the UNIX world. Ninety-one people attended, representing eight countries and nineteen American States. The third annual REXX Symposium for Developers and Users was held on May 3-5, 1992 in Annapolis, Maryland.
In this context, REXX was compared both to PERL and to Visual BASIC, which appears to be Microsoft's attempt to cover some of the deficiencies of BASIC. Prompted, in part, by Lotus' announcement of a REXX interface to 1-2-3, there was much discussion of ways that REXX could be promoted as a universal scripting and macro language. He also wowed us with some statistics demonstrating the incredible penetration REXX has made internationally as measured by the number of books published about it and the millions of users with access to it.
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