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Jeff!

Reports of the death of NetRexx have been greatly exaggerated.

In Sept. '11, IBM finally released it as FOSS to RexxLA (Rexx Language Association, RexxLA.org and NetRexx.org ).

A minor update release 3.00 under the new license has been issued. A lively mailing list is archived at http://ibm-netrexx.215625.n...

From RexxLA.org : "NetRexx 3.01 planned availability

2012-02-04: NetRexx 3.01 will be available via NetRexx.org. This release is the first with original contributions from the RexxLA development team; it will have new documentation donated by Mike Cowlishaw, an updated User Guide and several small enhancements and fixes. Update: Release Candidate RC2 is available for download, testing and feedback."

rvjansen

The reports of the death of NetRexx are greatly exaggerated. The language was open sourced by IBM last year and a community around it takes care of its maintenance. Not that it needed much. The latest version can be gotten from http://www.netrexx.org, while http://rosetta.org has more then 100 samples of how to do almost everything with it. Performance-wise, it smokes nearly every other language on this list, while consistently needing less than 40% of the sourcecode of the corresponding Java program, making it extremely readable and maintainable, and a pleasure to program in.