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- From: gregk@discover-net.net (Greg Kondrasuk)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.rexx
- Subject: Re: VX-REXX versus C/C++?
- Date: 23 Mar 1996 02:22:24 GMT
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- Reply-To: gregk@discover-net.net (Greg Kondrasuk)
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- In <4ivfqe$m62@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net>, javier5@ibm.net writes:
- >In <4io9vk$22i@mycogen.terminus.com>, dyutzy@seldon.terminus.com writes:
- >>I am wishing to step into the world of OS/2 programming and have been
- >>checking out some demos of VX-REXX and C/C++?
- >>
- >>Any suggestions, comments, etc....On the direction to proceed?
- >>
- >>I have used VB, Delphi, Clipper, Turbo C (DOS) among other languages....
- >
- >I wanted to add to the good comments/suggestions from others.
- >One thing that you could do is to use REXX to do all your GUI and
- >then when speed becomes an issue (or for the parts that it is
- >an issue) make DLLs in C to call from your REXX program.
- >
- >I also wanted to point out that there is an alternative to VX-REXx called
- >Vispro REXX. This makes an EXE which doesn't need you to send a DLL
- >with it.
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- A demo of Hockware's VisProREXX 3.0 is at hobbes in /incoming as
- evalvpr.zip (I think) The demo in /os2/demos is version 2.0.
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- Also, take a look at Hockware's homepage: http://www.hockware.com/hockware
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