Regina and THE

[Xose Vazquez Perez]

Karsten Hopp wrote:

> THE is a text editor similar to xedit which runs on s390/s390x z/VM.
> If you think vi's or emacs UI is cryptic, try out THE and you'll be happy with
> vi (or emacs) again. We ship it as a convinience for the z/VM administrators
> who are used to xedit, but you really don't want it if you're not one of them.

I know, I work on z/OS everyday ;-) and also with zLinux.

> I'm not sure about Regina, is anyone really interested in Rexx anymore ?

There is people from mainframe, mainly, that finds rexx very useful.
And there is _no_ reason to not build it over i386.

> In the Linux world Perl and Python are way more common, there's no need to 
> learn another interpreter language.

WRONG!! There is life beyond, as lua or ruby or ... Rexx.

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Hello, this is Darl McBride, and I pronounce Linux as UNIX.