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lewispollard

I used to work at the IBM lab where Rexx was created, funnily enough I've never heard of anyone using it in the wild!

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"Wild"? I used to work at IBM!

Aha!

At Google, refreshed my memory:

     Mike Cowlishaw - Hursley

Wasn't the Amiga version pretty big back in the day?

Yes, ARexx was big. A lot of popular software had an ARexx API so you could script across programs. Pretty awesome. I haven't seen anything like that since.

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