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NetRexx is Mike Cowlishaw's alternate language for the Java Virtual Machine, based on his human-readable programming language REXX.

Here's a minimal NetRexx program:

/* date.nrx */
say Date()

Compiling and running date.nrx:

% nrc -run date
NetRexx portable processor, version 2.05
Copyright (c) IBM Corporation, 2005.  All rights reserved.
Program hello.nrx
Compilation of 'hello.nrx' successful
Running hello...
Fri Jan 13 12:06:39 PST 2006

Here's the equivalent Java program:

/* date.java */
import java.util.Date;
public class date {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.out.println( new Date() );
    }
}

Compiling and running date.java:

% javac date.java
% java date
Fri Jan 13 12:07:33 PST 2006

I use NetRexx pretty routinely. If a task needs a Java library, but I don't feel like writing some giant Java app for one-shot problem-solving, NetRexx comes to my rescue.

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