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by mark_round 1022 days ago
There is a fantastic article which I've linked to before that goes into a lot of that: https://datagubbe.se/ltmag/

Datatypes in particular are amazing! I really wish some of these features (see also: ASSIGNs) made it over to other platforms. Which makes me think... A really nice hack (after I finally port SetCmd back to 68k and then bring it to more platforms) would be to add an ARexx port. Rexx itself is a pretty decent scripting language and the ubiquity of it on later-day Amiga systems meant that glue-ing components together and automating big chunks of platform behavior was very simple. Off down the rabbit hole again ;)
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vidarh 1022 days ago
I detest Rexx, but love having the Arexx port, but more Linux software and the like than people think have Dbus ports. If only dbus just wasn't so overengineered (ubus is an alternative)...

Also have a long list of projects to make my Linux desktop more Amiga-like again...

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