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I believe Rexx was also quite popular on the Amiga! That platform was otherwise very much the spiritual opposite of what IBM represented back in the 1980s.

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It was like another world what you could do with Arexx, because So. Many. Program. had support for it. Only what I started using Linux in 1995 one could do similar things (but in a much more clumsy and shell, pipes and commands-kind-if-way.)

I think PowerShell is the spiritual successor to Arexx. (Because you could do GUI stuff in ARexx and script GUI programs!)!

Yup, it was called arexx but was really nice.

So nice that Commodore actually bought it off the developer and shipped it with later releases of AmigaOS. It's not just a great way to automate a lot of Amiga apps (since most, both commercial and "PD", had ARexx support) but also a useful IPC mechanism on the platform.

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