[netrexx-course] Re: Visual NetRexx

[James E. Burke, Jr.]

Someone might want to answer this post in comp.lang.rexx and if there isn't
enough traffic to support
a netrexx newsgroup, this one ought to do.



On Thu, 16 Dec 1999 08:03:16 -0700, Brad Simonin <[hidden email]> wrote:
>I have been a Java programmer for just over a year now.  I used to be
>interested in NetRexx but decided Java was just as easy to use as NetRexx.

Good for you.
I always get some errors in plain java that I've forgotten a ";' or "}"  :)
Not mention how much errors the NetRexx Compiler detects, and how
comfortable the trace instruction is for debugging.

>
>Is NetRexx still around?  Does anyone know if it is actually being used by
>developers?

It's still around (www2.hursley.ibm.com/netrexx). Don't know if it is used
by other developers  - I do, and I like it.

kp
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Subject: [netrexx-course] Re: Visual NetRexx

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[Patric Bechtel-5]

Jim Burke wrote:

>
> Someone might want to answer this post in comp.lang.rexx and if there isn't
> enough traffic to support
> a netrexx newsgroup, this one ought to do.
>
> On Thu, 16 Dec 1999 08:03:16 -0700, Brad Simonin <[hidden email]> wrote:
> >I have been a Java programmer for just over a year now.  I used to be
> >interested in NetRexx but decided Java was just as easy to use as NetRexx.
>
> Good for you.
> I always get some errors in plain java that I've forgotten a ";' or "}"  :)
> Not mention how much errors the NetRexx Compiler detects, and how
> comfortable the trace instruction is for debugging.
>
> >
> >Is NetRexx still around?  Does anyone know if it is actually being used by
> >developers?
>
> It's still around (www2.hursley.ibm.com/netrexx). Don't know if it is used
> by other developers  - I do, and I like it.
>

me, too. I use it since the 0.86 version, writing programs for our
customers.
I even forced all our coder staff to use it for at least several weeks
and
viola: All of them at least like it very much... :-)
My own codebase (resuable components) is already about 600 KB Source
(about
800 KB Code) for every aspect I ever needed (sounds not that much, but I
like VERY flexible and variable progs, so every aspect is programmed
really
once!).
Since now, I nearly used every feature in Java: Dynamic loading,
classloaders,
on-the-fly compiling, remote method invocation, beanification,
serialisation,
GUI (I use a modified version of xwingml for jdk1.1.8 w/ some tools
around it
and a modified dtd), a special logging component w/ a GUI viewer
(customers
LOVE GUI's :-)), SAP BAPI-Access, AS/400 Database Access w/ abstract
Import/
Export Interfaces, CRON, taskcontroller, special classes for DNS, whois,
mailing, Message-Queuing, and so on.

So to say, NetRexx is essential for me and our coding staff. And, will
probably win it's friends over the years. Probably once upon a time
someone
will write an IDE for it (I use jedit w/ some additions I did not
publish
'till now, for compiling and Syntax Highlightning... That's 'nuff for
me).


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