REXX was awesome. Completely blew away cmd.com batch scripts. I used it in DOS constantly. Shame it died with OS/2.
I last used REXX last year, to write BDD tests for my Amiga software on AmigaOS 3.2. IBM still support it on MVS and z/OS, too.
I've searched Hobbes and other repositories. It isn't there. There is another VX-REXX based ftp program there.
Re:OS/2 Warp, PowerPC Edition
by squarefoot on Friday October 20, 2023 @04:17PM
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ObjectREXX is there.
https://hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/dev/proglang/orexx/...
As mentioned in my comment I was looking for my old program I uploaded to OS/2 BBS and not a REXX implementation.
REXX is still available for many different OSes including most flavors of Unix: https://regina-rexx.sourceforge.io/
There is also an "Object Oriented" flavor called OORexx and one that works with Java for scripting purposes called NetRexx etc., all listed here: http://rexxinfo.org/downloads/index_downloads.html
I loved REXX when I used OS/2. Besides using it for scripting, I wrote a few programs using Watcon VX-REXX which was similar to Visual Basic but used REXX. I was most proud of the graphical ftp program I created. I uploaded it to the OS/2 BBS but can't find it in any of the archives of the site.
In the mid-2000s I used REXX one final time to program an IVR system. I was not and had never been a developer by profession but I was the only one with any familiarity with REXX, so it fell to me.