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  1. I've been trying local models inside cREXX with llama.rexx, using llama.cpp. One example generates a button label; another finds “The kitten is sleeping…” for “A cat having a nap”.

    Both examples have been tested. The model runs in the application. Development snapshot; optional provider and model files needed.

    github.com/adesutherland/CREXX

    #Rexx #cREXX #LocalAI

  2. I've been trying local models inside cREXX with llama.rexx, using llama.cpp. One example generates a button label; another finds “The kitten is sleeping…” for “A cat having a nap”.

    Both examples have been tested. The model runs in the application. Development snapshot; optional provider and model files needed.

    github.com/adesutherland/CREXX

  3. I've been trying local models inside cREXX with llama.rexx, using llama.cpp. One example generates a button label; another finds “The kitten is sleeping…” for “A cat having a nap”.

    Both examples have been tested. The model runs in the application. Development snapshot; optional provider and model files needed.

    github.com/adesutherland/CREXX

    #Rexx #cREXX #LocalAI

  4. cREXX's Text Inspector PoC runs the same file-counting feature in a line terminal, a full-screen terminal and a GTK window. Open, cancel and clear are part of the example; controls and layout are still limited.

    A useful experiment in keeping application logic separate from its interface. On develop for beta 3:
    github.com/adesutherland/CREXX

    #Rexx #cREXX #OpenSource

  5. cREXX's Text Inspector PoC runs the same file-counting feature in a line terminal, a full-screen terminal and a GTK window. Open, cancel and clear are part of the example; controls and layout are still limited.

    A useful experiment in keeping application logic separate from its interface. On develop for beta 3:
    github.com/adesutherland/CREXX

  6. cREXX's Text Inspector PoC runs the same file-counting feature in a line terminal, a full-screen terminal and a GTK window. Open, cancel and clear are part of the example; controls and layout are still limited.

    A useful experiment in keeping application logic separate from its interface. On develop for beta 3:
    github.com/adesutherland/CREXX

    #Rexx #cREXX #OpenSource

  7. cREXX's Text Inspector PoC runs the same file-counting feature in a line terminal, a full-screen terminal and a GTK window. Open, cancel and clear are part of the example; controls and layout are still limited.

    A useful experiment in keeping application logic separate from its interface. On develop for beta 3:
    github.com/adesutherland/CREXX

    #Rexx #cREXX #OpenSource

  8. @umbraroze And is still the future! :-)

  9. Coming up on Beltane festival and still in search of software developer work.

    I speak the old tongues of #C, #Forth, #REXX, and #Shell, along with other foreign tongues of #Erlang, #NodeJS, #Go, #Java, #C# and more. I make utterances in #English and #French.

    I command in several BSD and Linux dialects. Even wrote successful anti-spam filtering software #BarricadeMX and several #milters.

    And can brag about winning the @IOCCC (but don't in polite company).

    I seek employment for a worthy cause with remuneration.

    Please someone reach out, if only to stop me pestering you fine folks every so often with this plea.

    snert.com/resume/

    gofundme.com/f/ioccc-winner-se

    #GetFediHired #FediHire #jobseeker #gofundme

  10. Coming up on Beltane festival and still in search of software developer work.

    I speak the old tongues of #C, #Forth, #REXX, and #Shell, along with other foreign tongues of #Erlang, #NodeJS, #Go, #Java, #C# and more. I make utterances in #English and #French.

    I command in several BSD and Linux dialects. Even wrote successful anti-spam filtering software #BarricadeMX and several #milters.

    And can brag about winning the @IOCCC (but don't in polite company).

    I seek employment for a worthy cause with remuneration.

    Please someone reach out, if only to stop me pestering you fine folks every so often with this plea.

    snert.com/resume/

    gofundme.com/f/ioccc-winner-se

    #GetFediHired #FediHire #jobseeker #gofundme

  11. Coming up on Beltane festival and still in search of software developer work.

    I speak the old tongues of #C, #Forth, #REXX, and #Shell, along with other foreign tongues of #Erlang, #NodeJS, #Go, #Java, #C# and more. I make utterances in #English and #French.

    I command in several BSD and Linux dialects. Even wrote successful anti-spam filtering software #BarricadeMX and several #milters.

    And can brag about winning the @IOCCC (but don't in polite company).

    I seek employment for a worthy cause with remuneration.

    Please someone reach out, if only to stop me pestering you fine folks every so often with this plea.

    snert.com/resume/

    gofundme.com/f/ioccc-winner-se

    #GetFediHired #FediHire #jobseeker #gofundme

  12. Coming up on Beltane festival and still in search of software developer work.

    I speak the old tongues of #C, #Forth, #REXX, and #Shell, along with other foreign tongues of #Erlang, #NodeJS, #Go, #Java, #C# and more. I make utterances in #English and #French.

    I command in several BSD and Linux dialects. Even wrote successful anti-spam filtering software #BarricadeMX and several #milters.

    And can brag about winning the @IOCCC (but don't in polite company).

    I seek employment for a worth cause with remuneration.

    Please someone reach out, if only to stop me pestering you fine folks every so often with this plea.

    snert.com/resume/

    gofundme.com/f/ioccc-winner-se

    #GetFediHired #FediHire #jobseeker #gofundme

  13. Coming up on Beltane festival and still in search of software developer work.

    I speak the old tongues of #C, #Forth, #REXX, and #Shell, along with other foreign tongues of #Erlang, #NodeJS, #Go, #Java, #C# and more. I make utterances in #English and #French.

    I command in several BSD and Linux dialects. Even wrote successful anti-spam filtering software #BarricadeMX and several #milters.

    And can brag about winning the @IOCCC (but don't in polite company).

    I seek employment for a worthy cause with remuneration.

    Please someone reach out, if only to stop me pestering you fine folks every so often with this plea.

    snert.com/resume/

    gofundme.com/f/ioccc-winner-se

    #GetFediHired #FediHire #jobseeker #gofundme

  14. Let's just all switch back to #rexx, I'm quite sure the bad "datacenter in space!" people won't bother us then.

  15. Let's just all switch back to #rexx, I'm quite sure the bad "datacenter in space!" people won't bother us then.

  16. Let's just all switch back to #rexx, I'm quite sure the bad "datacenter in space!" people won't bother us then.

  17. Let's just all switch back to #rexx, I'm quite sure the bad "datacenter in space!" people won't bother us then.

  18. Let's just all switch back to #rexx, I'm quite sure the bad "datacenter in space!" people won't bother us then.

  19. @BRicker I was a VM/CMS user in the 1980s and don't think I knew about REXX. I saw Regina Rexx distributed with the Windows 95(?) Resource Kit and possibly the AmigaOS ARexx version before that. I follow current ooRexx development closely, but I have not written any. I don't believe REXX under CMS, TSO, or OS/2 was used as Shell on Unix: EXECs where small macros or scripts, but control constructs could not be used interactively, AFAIK. Happy to hear from mainframe REXX users!

    #rexx

  20. @BRicker I was a VM/CMS user in the 1980s and don't think I knew about REXX. I saw Regina Rexx distributed with the Windows 95(?) Resource Kit and possibly the AmigaOS ARexx version before that. I follow current ooRexx development closely, but I have not written any. I don't believe REXX under CMS, TSO, or OS/2 was used as Shell on Unix: EXECs where small macros or scripts, but control constructs could not be used interactively, AFAIK. Happy to hear from mainframe REXX users!

    #rexx

  21. @BRicker I was a VM/CMS user in the 1980s and don't think I knew about REXX. I saw Regina Rexx distributed with the Windows 95(?) Resource Kit and possibly the AmigaOS ARexx version before that. I follow current ooRexx development closely, but I have not written any. I don't believe REXX under CMS, TSO, or OS/2 was used as Shell on Unix: EXECs where small macros or scripts, but control constructs could not be used interactively, AFAIK. Happy to hear from mainframe REXX users!

    #rexx

  22. @BRicker I was a VM/CMS user in the 1980s and don't think I knew about REXX. I saw Regina Rexx distributed with the Windows 95(?) Resource Kit and possibly the AmigaOS ARexx version before that. I follow current ooRexx development closely, but I have not written any. I don't believe REXX under CMS, TSO, or OS/2 was used as Shell on Unix: EXECs where small macros or scripts, but control constructs could not be used interactively, AFAIK. Happy to hear from mainframe REXX users!

    #rexx

  23. @BRicker I was a VM/CMS user in the 1980s and don't think I knew about REXX. I saw Regina Rexx distributed with the Windows 95(?) Resource Kit and possibly the AmigaOS ARexx version before that. I follow current ooRexx development closely, but I have not written any. I don't believe REXX under CMS, TSO, or OS/2 was used as Shell on Unix: EXECs where small macros or scripts, but control constructs could not be used interactively, AFAIK. Happy to hear from mainframe REXX users!

    #rexx

  24. Blog

    In the latest of his blog entries, Carl Svensson investigates the unsubstantiated claim that Commodore received a REXX license from IBM in exchange for using design ideas from the Amiga Workbench in the development of OS/2 2.0. His conclusion, though: this rumor is not true:

    amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2026-

    #Amiga #IBM #Rexx #blog #Commodore

  25. Blog

    In the latest of his blog entries, Carl Svensson investigates the unsubstantiated claim that Commodore received a REXX license from IBM in exchange for using design ideas from the Amiga Workbench in the development of OS/2 2.0. His conclusion, though: this rumor is not true:

    amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2026-

  26. Blog

    In the latest of his blog entries, Carl Svensson investigates the unsubstantiated claim that Commodore received a REXX license from IBM in exchange for using design ideas from the Amiga Workbench in the development of OS/2 2.0. His conclusion, though: this rumor is not true:

    amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2026-

    #Amiga #IBM #Rexx #blog #Commodore

  27. Blog

    In the latest of his blog entries, Carl Svensson investigates the unsubstantiated claim that Commodore received a REXX license from IBM in exchange for using design ideas from the Amiga Workbench in the development of OS/2 2.0. His conclusion, though: this rumor is not true:

    amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2026-

    #Amiga #IBM #Rexx #blog #Commodore

  28. Blog

    In the latest of his blog entries, Carl Svensson investigates the unsubstantiated claim that Commodore received a REXX license from IBM in exchange for using design ideas from the Amiga Workbench in the development of OS/2 2.0. His conclusion, though: this rumor is not true:

    amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2026-

    #Amiga #IBM #Rexx #blog #Commodore

  29. With some help from the SZE community, I can now log my service uptime and latency in #Db2 using #Golang !

    I've got a service called CompInvZ which links into my Db2Z host to find services, then it periodically tries to connect and records the result back to DB2

    A friend of mine took it a step further and is using #ISPF to interact with Db2 via #REXX

    That means #CICS is next on the list, thanks #Walmart !
    github.com/walmartlabs/zECS

    #Mainframe #IBM #ZOS #programming #COBOL #HLASM

  30. With some help from the SZE community, I can now log my service uptime and latency in #Db2 using #Golang !

    I've got a service called CompInvZ which links into my Db2Z host to find services, then it periodically tries to connect and records the result back to DB2

    A friend of mine took it a step further and is using #ISPF to interact with Db2 via #REXX

    That means #CICS is next on the list, thanks #Walmart !
    github.com/walmartlabs/zECS

    #Mainframe #IBM #ZOS #programming #COBOL #HLASM

  31. With some help from the SZE community, I can now log my service uptime and latency in #Db2 using #Golang !

    I've got a service called CompInvZ which links into my Db2Z host to find services, then it periodically tries to connect and records the result back to DB2

    A friend of mine took it a step further and is using #ISPF to interact with Db2 via #REXX

    That means #CICS is next on the list, thanks #Walmart !
    github.com/walmartlabs/zECS

    #Mainframe #IBM #ZOS #programming #COBOL #HLASM

  32. With some help from the SZE community, I can now log my service uptime and latency in #Db2 using #Golang !

    I've got a service called CompInvZ which links into my Db2Z host to find services, then it periodically tries to connect and records the result back to DB2

    A friend of mine took it a step further and is using #ISPF to interact with Db2 via #REXX

    That means #CICS is next on the list, thanks #Walmart !
    github.com/walmartlabs/zECS

    #Mainframe #IBM #ZOS #programming #COBOL #HLASM

  33. With some help from the SZE community, I can now log my service uptime and latency in #Db2 using #Golang !

    I've got a service called CompInvZ which links into my Db2Z host to find services, then it periodically tries to connect and records the result back to DB2

    A friend of mine took it a step further and is using #ISPF to interact with Db2 via #REXX

    That means #CICS is next on the list, thanks #Walmart !
    github.com/walmartlabs/zECS

    #Mainframe #IBM #ZOS #programming #COBOL #HLASM

  34. OORexx. Класс блокировки ресурсов

    При работе нескольких независимых процессов использующих общие ресурсы, возникает задача синхронизации доступа. Ресурсом может выступать как файл или строчка в файле, так и доступ к железу или же ожидание завершения вычисления в параллельном процессе. Для реализации синхронизации между процессами необходимо иметь возможность межпотокового обмена данными. В OORexx для реализации многопоточной работы есть инструкции « guard » и « reply ». Но они относятся к работе в рамках одного процесса. Для синхронизации работы разных процессов можно использовать семафоры и внешние очереди (каналы). Вот о них мы и поговорим.

    habr.com/ru/articles/967754/

    #oorexx #rexx

  35. OORexx. Класс блокировки ресурсов

    При работе нескольких независимых процессов использующих общие ресурсы, возникает задача синхронизации доступа. Ресурсом может выступать как файл или строчка в файле, так и доступ к железу или же ожидание завершения вычисления в параллельном процессе. Для реализации синхронизации между процессами необходимо иметь возможность межпотокового обмена данными. В OORexx для реализации многопоточной работы есть инструкции « guard » и « reply ». Но они относятся к работе в рамках одного процесса. Для синхронизации работы разных процессов можно использовать семафоры и внешние очереди (каналы). Вот о них мы и поговорим.

    habr.com/ru/articles/967754/

    #oorexx #rexx

  36. OORexx. Класс блокировки ресурсов

    При работе нескольких независимых процессов использующих общие ресурсы, возникает задача синхронизации доступа. Ресурсом может выступать как файл или строчка в файле, так и доступ к железу или же ожидание завершения вычисления в параллельном процессе. Для реализации синхронизации между процессами необходимо иметь возможность межпотокового обмена данными. В OORexx для реализации многопоточной работы есть инструкции « guard » и « reply ». Но они относятся к работе в рамках одного процесса. Для синхронизации работы разных процессов можно использовать семафоры и внешние очереди (каналы). Вот о них мы и поговорим.

    habr.com/ru/articles/967754/

    #oorexx #rexx

  37. I'm leaning toward #Forth for #AdventOfCode2025. I've been looking at Forth and #Rexx and the whole "build your own kitchen sink" feeling appeals to me. I see some libraries out there, but I can avoid them :)

    Being on an Apple Silicon Mac limits my selection of Forths--no Rosetta no how. I had hoped for more pure C engines than I found.

    gforth is the big kid on the block, but last time I played with it I couldn't build it myself (a soft requirement). Installs and runs well, but feels "big" and I'm looking for "small."

    pforth github.com/philburk/pforth is an early favorite. I crash it sometimes but that's my bad code.. Feels solid with correct code.

    fforth (this one) cowlark.com/fforth/index.html builds and runs like greased lightning.

    muforth github.com/nimblemachines/mufo would probably simulate the programming for a dedicated device experience. I'd have to see if its ARM support could run under a container on my Mac. Maybe qemu?

    If anyone sees this and has suggestions for something I missed please let me know.

  38. I'm leaning toward #Forth for #AdventOfCode2025. I've been looking at Forth and #Rexx and the whole "build your own kitchen sink" feeling appeals to me. I see some libraries out there, but I can avoid them :)

    Being on an Apple Silicon Mac limits my selection of Forths--no Rosetta no how. I had hoped for more pure C engines than I found.

    gforth is the big kid on the block, but last time I played with it I couldn't build it myself (a soft requirement). Installs and runs well, but feels "big" and I'm looking for "small."

    pforth github.com/philburk/pforth is an early favorite. I crash it sometimes but that's my bad code.. Feels solid with correct code.

    fforth (this one) cowlark.com/fforth/index.html builds and runs like greased lightning.

    muforth github.com/nimblemachines/mufo would probably simulate the programming for a dedicated device experience. I'd have to see if its ARM support could run under a container on my Mac. Maybe qemu?

    If anyone sees this and has suggestions for something I missed please let me know.

  39. I'm leaning toward #Forth for #AdventOfCode2025. I've been looking at Forth and #Rexx and the whole "build your own kitchen sink" feeling appeals to me. I see some libraries out there, but I can avoid them :)

    Being on an Apple Silicon Mac limits my selection of Forths--no Rosetta no how. I had hoped for more pure C engines than I found.

    gforth is the big kid on the block, but last time I played with it I couldn't build it myself (a soft requirement). Installs and runs well, but feels "big" and I'm looking for "small."

    pforth github.com/philburk/pforth is an early favorite. I crash it sometimes but that's my bad code.. Feels solid with correct code.

    fforth (this one) cowlark.com/fforth/index.html builds and runs like greased lightning.

    muforth github.com/nimblemachines/mufo would probably simulate the programming for a dedicated device experience. I'd have to see if its ARM support could run under a container on my Mac. Maybe qemu?

    If anyone sees this and has suggestions for something I missed please let me know.

  40. I'm leaning toward for . I've been looking at Forth and and the whole "build your own kitchen sink" feeling appeals to me. I see some libraries out there, but I can avoid them :)

    Being on an Apple Silicon Mac limits my selection of Forths--no Rosetta no how. I had hoped for more pure C engines than I found.

    gforth is the big kid on the block, but last time I played with it I couldn't build it myself (a soft requirement). Installs and runs well, but feels "big" and I'm looking for "small."

    pforth github.com/philburk/pforth is an early favorite. I crash it sometimes but that's my bad code.. Feels solid with correct code.

    fforth (this one) cowlark.com/fforth/index.html builds and runs like greased lightning.

    muforth github.com/nimblemachines/mufo would probably simulate the programming for a dedicated device experience. I'd have to see if its ARM support could run under a container on my Mac. Maybe qemu?

    If anyone sees this and has suggestions for something I missed please let me know.

  41. Coming back here ... too much post-apocalyptic news and politics elsewhere.

    I'm gearing up for #AdventOfCode2025 and trying to decide which language to use. It's either

    #Pascal, which I know well.
    #Forth, which I haven't seriously looked at in a few decades.
    #Rexx, same as Forth (on *nix, not a mainframe).

    I've done AoC in Pascal, C, and Fortran in the past. All work well, but if I don't try a new language, I'll go with my first love in FPC Pascal.

    Anyone who might see this, do you have opinions/recommendations/experience with using Forth or Rexx for #AdventOfCode? I've got a month to re-familiarize myself with either Forth or Rexx.

  42. Coming back here ... too much post-apocalyptic news and politics elsewhere.

    I'm gearing up for #AdventOfCode2025 and trying to decide which language to use. It's either

    #Pascal, which I know well.
    #Forth, which I haven't seriously looked at in a few decades.
    #Rexx, same as Forth (on *nix, not a mainframe).

    I've done AoC in Pascal, C, and Fortran in the past. All work well, but if I don't try a new language, I'll go with my first love in FPC Pascal.

    Anyone who might see this, do you have opinions/recommendations/experience with using Forth or Rexx for #AdventOfCode? I've got a month to re-familiarize myself with either Forth or Rexx.

  43. Coming back here ... too much post-apocalyptic news and politics elsewhere.

    I'm gearing up for #AdventOfCode2025 and trying to decide which language to use. It's either

    #Pascal, which I know well.
    #Forth, which I haven't seriously looked at in a few decades.
    #Rexx, same as Forth (on *nix, not a mainframe).

    I've done AoC in Pascal, C, and Fortran in the past. All work well, but if I don't try a new language, I'll go with my first love in FPC Pascal.

    Anyone who might see this, do you have opinions/recommendations/experience with using Forth or Rexx for #AdventOfCode? I've got a month to re-familiarize myself with either Forth or Rexx.

  44. Coming back here ... too much post-apocalyptic news and politics elsewhere.

    I'm gearing up for #AdventOfCode2025 and trying to decide which language to use. It's either

    #Pascal, which I know well.
    #Forth, which I haven't seriously looked at in a few decades.
    #Rexx, same as Forth (on *nix, not a mainframe).

    I've done AoC in Pascal, C, and Fortran in the past. All work well, but if I don't try a new language, I'll go with my first love in FPC Pascal.

    Anyone who might see this, do you have opinions/recommendations/experience with using Forth or Rexx for #AdventOfCode? I've got a month to re-familiarize myself with either Forth or Rexx.

  45. Coming back here ... too much post-apocalyptic news and politics elsewhere.

    I'm gearing up for and trying to decide which language to use. It's either

    , which I know well.
    , which I haven't seriously looked at in a few decades.
    , same as Forth (on *nix, not a mainframe).

    I've done AoC in Pascal, C, and Fortran in the past. All work well, but if I don't try a new language, I'll go with my first love in FPC Pascal.

    Anyone who might see this, do you have opinions/recommendations/experience with using Forth or Rexx for ? I've got a month to re-familiarize myself with either Forth or Rexx.

  46. Cowliwshaw in "The REXX Language" (1985) outlines the purpose of REXX as a (what we later call) scripting language:

    - Personal programming (for a few people)
    - Tailoring user commands (Shell scripts, wrappers, etc.)
    - Macros (embedding)
    - Prototype development (for a short time)

    Automation and "glue" code (Ousterhout, 1998) are other functions for general purpose scripting languages.

    This is orthogonal to interactive Shells though.

    #shell #rexx

  47. Cowliwshaw in "The REXX Language" (1985) outlines the purpose of REXX as a (what we later call) scripting language:

    - Personal programming (for a few people)
    - Tailoring user commands (Shell scripts, wrappers, etc.)
    - Macros (embedding)
    - Prototype development (for a short time)

    Automation and "glue" code (Ousterhout, 1998) are other functions for general purpose scripting languages.

    This is orthogonal to interactive Shells though.

    #shell #rexx

  48. Cowliwshaw in "The REXX Language" (1985) outlines the purpose of REXX as a (what we later call) scripting language:

    - Personal programming (for a few people)
    - Tailoring user commands (Shell scripts, wrappers, etc.)
    - Macros (embedding)
    - Prototype development (for a short time)

    Automation and "glue" code (Ousterhout, 1998) are other functions for general purpose scripting languages.

    This is orthogonal to interactive Shells though.

    #shell #rexx

  49. Cowliwshaw in "The REXX Language" (1985) outlines the purpose of REXX as a (what we later call) scripting language:

    - Personal programming (for a few people)
    - Tailoring user commands (Shell scripts, wrappers, etc.)
    - Macros (embedding)
    - Prototype development (for a short time)

    Automation and "glue" code (Ousterhout, 1998) are other functions for general purpose scripting languages.

    This is orthogonal to interactive Shells though.

    #shell #rexx

  50. Debating taking a mental health day off work, but the most difficult task I have today is reading a script for a meeting....

    Maybe I'll hide my nose in some #COBOL or #REXX for a bit..

  51. Debating taking a mental health day off work, but the most difficult task I have today is reading a script for a meeting....

    Maybe I'll hide my nose in some #COBOL or #REXX for a bit..

  52. Debating taking a mental health day off work, but the most difficult task I have today is reading a script for a meeting....

    Maybe I'll hide my nose in some #COBOL or #REXX for a bit..

  53. Debating taking a mental health day off work, but the most difficult task I have today is reading a script for a meeting....

    Maybe I'll hide my nose in some #COBOL or #REXX for a bit..

  54. Debating taking a mental health day off work, but the most difficult task I have today is reading a script for a meeting....

    Maybe I'll hide my nose in some #COBOL or #REXX for a bit..

  55. A while back I tackled the idea of converting my #budget #spreadsheet to a normal Program.. With reports, transaction processing, and lots of traditional #Banking features I decided to use #RetroComputing #Mainframe tools and languages like #REXX, #VSAM, #IBM S370 a la MVS Tk5, and now #COBOL has joined the project to replace some #x86 (or Z) #Golang preprocessing. Not just any COBOL, #MVT COBOL'68 which lacks MANY modern/OOP/String functionality as they're commonly known.. Hello PIC X OCCURS!