CompuServe Messages

Ethan, Windows are no more difficult in ARexx than they are in Basic. The syntax is just different, is all. Menus and gadgets are not part of ARexx, but are added externally with functions libraries or programs written specifically for those functions. Calling external library functions is easier, if anything, in ARexx than it is in Basic. Rememebr, ARexx itself doesn't do a lot of things, and if those things need to be available to you, then it is probably the wrong language. Note that this is no different than any language. Look at typing of variables. In Arexx you can assign strings, characters, or numbers to variables without having to worry about what the variable 'type' is. Virtually all other languages (except assembler and Icon), require at least some attention to variable types. I really think people 'get used to' Basic, and become afraid of anything that isn't actually Basic. I also think that a lot of this fear will go away when ARexx is included with the system -larry