The Rexx (R estructured EX tender and ecutor X) is a programming language developed by Mike Cowlishaw in IBM .
Rexx and 'general language pourpose a bit like the Basic, is available on many platforms, can be close enough to the system as C, there are in fact, libraries providing access to the layer TCP / IP communications, databases (DB2 , Oracle, MSSQL ...) to the Windows registry, memory and much more.
Rexx followed me in my work activities since 1990, I used it on hardware platforms ranging from IBM mainframes, workstations Alpha and risks to the Intel architecture with operating systems like OS/390, Tru64, Dos, Windows, OS / 2, Linux, etc..
Over time I made several works in Rexx and now I felt like using it on my MacBook Pro with Mac OSX.
The following is a simple procedure that, given the installed prerequisites described in the first part of my post on how to install GNU Midnight Commander , will allow you to install `Rexx on Mac OSX.
The installation of Regina Rexx from source is pretty simple:
- download the source from SourceForge (Regina-REXX-3.4.tar.gz)
- unpack the tar file -Regina-REXX-xvf 3.4.tar.gz
- configure the package through. / Configure - prefix = / usr / local
- start the compilation by typing make
- install if everything ok with the command sudo make install
rexx-v
if everything went well you will get is something like:
REXX-Dec 30 2007 5:00 Regina_3.4
A Now I think that some links on Rexx and neighborhoods will be appreciated:
- The Rexx on Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REXX)
- Mike Cowlishaw the Daddy of Rexx (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Cowlishaw)
- Mark Hessling the dad of the Regina Rexx (http:/ / www.rexx.org/)
- A tutorial on Rexx (http://www.kilowattsoftware.com/tutorial/rexx/)
- PPWIZARD a preprocessor Rexx (http://www .dennisbareis.com / ppwizard.htm)
soon a new open source software ...
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