I'm contemplating purchasing either VXREXX or VisPro Rexx.  Anyone have
any ideas which is better (and why)?  

I use VisPro Rexx - mainly for it's DB Designer Tool, and the fact that it works with DB2/2
v. 2.1,
which, I hear, VXRexx does not (yet).

Glenn Williams
Senior Consultant
Advanced Decisions Inc.

I use VisoPro Rexx Bronze. VisoPro Rexx compiles into nice small exes
where VXRexx requires the VRobj.dll and with code is bigger. I would
recommend VisoPro Rexx gold if you can afford and need the database and
enhancements. Otherwise the Bronze version is fully functional and easy to
use. What both of these really need is a nice package of pre-made widgets
so that coding for even beginning level OS2 users is very simple (much
like the idea behind Visual Basic). In addition, if either VXRexx or
VisoPro Rexx were made available for a number of OSes (say OS2, Win NT and
UNIX) then we would have an easy to use, cross-platform visual development
tool. No matter what Microsoft says, Visual Basic is limited to NT and
Windows on Intel. Thus, it not exactly the language one would like to use
for open computing and portability. Rexx on the other hand exists on most
platforms and OSes. Perhaps someone to begin to exploit this with good
visual tools.

Paul Taube
University of Texas-Pan American
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: I'm contemplating purchasing either VXREXX or VisPro Rexx.  Anyone have
: any ideas which is better (and why)?  

Tough choice.  If you plan onusing C/C++ too, I'd go for the Visi suite.  
you canuse all the tools in aallthe packages.  The Visi rexx allso
produces (from what I understand) a single file, while the VXREXX uses a
runtime dll (over 900k)  They both are nice. grab the demos of ecah and
play.
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Dave
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