CompuServe Messages

Hi Steven, I called the company and spoke to Mark Downing. Nice fellow. He was from the IBM world and had rexx experience. Once the Amiga came out he got the idea to write an interpreter, but heard a rumour that some guy had already started writing one (Bill Hawes). Mark then decided to work on a compilier, which now after 5000 hours is just about ready for release. I could get a beta version for $90 but since I am somewhat of a novice user of arexx (even though I've written 197k of arexx code for an accounting program), Mark suggests that I wait for the release version, which should be ready in about a month. He has beta testers already, but will sell a beta copy if requested. The release price will be around $150. An arexx program is turned into assembler, resulting in speed increases of up to 2.5 times. This program currently does not support the Interpret function, of which I have only one in my program – at Main: Bill had long ago suggested that I use Interpret instead of Select, as a better method to get to my labels, of which I have 219. Main: is now only 7 lines of code, and changing to Select and having 219 When's will be a drag. He said he would look into my problem 🙂 I mentioned trying the ExecRexx program on Money.rexx and it choking. He explained at ExecRexx converts your arexx code to a string, which Arexx has a string length limit of (I believe) 64k. No wonder my 197k died 🙂 A set of manual proofs were delivered last Friday, and contained several typos in the first 3 pages! All that has to be fixed up (as usual). That's all for now folks… Ken Cooper – Vancouver