Re: ooRexx 3.1 Beta 1 Release Available

de Lee Peedin 06/06/2006 01:08

On Tue, 06 Jun 2006 11:24:53 +0800, Man-wai Chang
<toylet.toylet@gmail.com> wrote:

>> of ooRexx 3.1. It is available on SourceForge at
>> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=119701
>
>I haven't touched Rexx after my placement job back in 1989 ... :)
>
>I believe xharbour and harbour-project are better than Rexx. At least,
>they got a DBF engine and user-interface functions built-in.

Rexx SQL (FOSS) <http://rexxsql.sourceforge.net/index.html> provides
database access, also on Windows one can use any ActiveX/OLE interface
as well.

ooDialog provides GUI and is part of ooRexx on Windows.
http://rexxdw.sourceforge.net/index.html

Rexx DW (FOSS) <http://rexxdw.sourceforge.net/index.html> is a cross
platform GUI package.

And my favorite is the use of BSF4Rexx that allows one to use any of
the Java GUI classes within ooRexx & Classic Rexx.

The entrie Rexx family has come a long way since 1989, but to each his
own. That's the beautiful thing about FOSS, one has alternatives. :-)

Lee