Actually, 20 years ago it would have produced SPL code -- with the
introduction of XL machines came the need to create Pascal instead of SPL.
Either way, I thought it worked quite well for what it did [and if you
didn't have anything too strenuous to create]

They also had a front-end to this called PAL, which was view-screen based
and would take inputs from the user to create a REX source file.  Several
[automated] compilation steps later you had pure object code running as a
program -- much better than an interpreter at the time.

OTOH: REXX is a language developed [I think] by IBM.  It has been ported to
several platforms including OS/2, NT, win 9x, and a few other
main/mini/micro computers that I've never worked on ;)  This is more of a
command-line/scripting language, similar to VBA or the "posix shell".

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Allan Chalmers [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Monday, March 13, 2000 7:37 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: A Little Help for the Lost.
>
>
> From my fast fading memory re REX:
>
> It was called REX/3000 and was a report writer that
> created Pascal code.  Gentry Inc. of Oakland CA (510
> 547 6134) marketed it and, I believe created it.  I
> bought a copy for a big project Gentry did for me and
> always found that you had to go into the created code
> to modify it to do what you wanted. I was
> underwhelmed.
> This was twenty years ago.
> There was another inquiry about it some time back on
> HP3000-L.
>
>
> --- Scott Petersen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > Folks,
> >
> > I am trying to find information on 3 different
> > products.  At one point they
> > were products on the market for the HP3000.  I even
> > recall hearing about
> > some of them myself.  The products in question are
> > ESP, REX, and GLASS.  If
> > you have any knowledge or information about them
> > (status, situation,
> > condition, current owner, etc., etc. ...) it would
> > be appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks Scott.
> > *********************************************
> > Scott Petersen
> > eXegeSys, Inc.
> > R&D Manager
> > 801-799-0917 x 213
> > e-mail: [log in to unmask]
> >
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