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Forgotten and buried. Do you personally have a use for it? But I have currently not much time.
Posted on: 2011/5/16 21:20
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AROS - Make code, not war :knuddel:
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How end it up this one? Saimon69
Posted on: 2011/5/16 20:22
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Yes, Its possible to make other things talk to applications through their AREXX port, possibly any other language interpreter, but its not as simple as that. Apps may have been written, when finding AREXX libraries and message ports and use them for various features (bundled scripts) and may offer some of their internal functions to the AREXX interpreter for other programs to use or share data. In other words under AmigaDOS 3.x, there is/was a whole infrastructure built around AREXX by multiple applications being aware of AREXX and each others AREXX support. I think the book "Programmers Guide to ARexx" by Eric Giguere (lost mine in many moves) was a good reference. It would be nice to implement that in a more language agnostic way for all "style guide compliant" applications.
Posted on: 2010/10/21 18:12
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I seem to recall Carl telling the Amiga community in a speech that somebody had made an exact replica of Deluxe Paint in Rebol complete with anim-brushes and everything. Rebol makes GUIs easily and supports "dialects" based on parsing expression grammars.
Posted on: 2010/10/21 15:30
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Perhaps you could give me an example of something REBOL can do easily that wouldn't be possible to achieve as elegantly in ARexx, seeing as you've obviously looked into it in depth. Anyway, I'm not saying we shouldn't have a port of REBOL, but I'm questioning what advantages it has over the current arrangement with ARexx. I'm all for people having control over their system using their favourite tools, but reading others posts here ARexx/Regina already supports using separate scripting languages to control applications with ARexx ports, so we already have all the potential we need with the current system.
Posted on: 2010/10/21 10:41
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You can use any language that can call Amiga libraries to create, receive and process messages over an Arexx port - it's not tied to Arexx the language. I don't see the appeal in replacing ARexx, though. I don't like the language, but the benefit it has is that that it is shared across the Amiga-like OS's. With the current size of the community I question the benefit of fragmenting things further. That said, a Rebol port to AROS with support for ARexx would be nice - more languages are always welcome.
Posted on: 2010/10/21 10:19
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I'll have a look how Amiga-Python implements its AREXX ports. I hope that the bug in regina.library which causes crashes in applications like YAM doesn't go in my way.
Posted on: 2010/10/21 10:12
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I would say that if Lua could talk to REXX ports it would be a very good solution.
With Lua + Zulu you can do impressive things in few lines and it's very easy to learn.
Posted on: 2010/10/21 9:30
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AWNPipe needs ReAction.
Posted on: 2010/10/21 8:52
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We would have to find his current e-mail address
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/awnpipe/message/545 Jeff.
Posted on: 2010/10/21 8:38
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