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I've had pneumonia once, it's more common than people realize.
It's also very common to get pneumonia on top of other respiratory deceases, being the actual killer.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Never stop dreaming - Freddie Kruger
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1. I wonder if the flu shot is why I didn't get the flu?
2. I wonder if I would not have gotten the flu if I had gotten the shot?
I vote for #2, but I will do what I am told 
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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If I get a flu shot, the company will give me the choice of a free reward:
PJ pants
zip-up hoodie
yoga mat
grill apron
hydration kit (water bottle & tumbler)
health kit (fanny pack with gloves, mask, wipes, stress ball & cool pack)
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think about the reverse situation. suppose there is a shot for the whatever virus.
do you think the flu will step aside while you go to get your shot for the other virus?
on this 5th of October the WHO announced it's best estimate indicate that roughly 1 in 10 people in the world may have been infected by the corona virus.
that's 10% of the world population. given that they say than there are 1,1 million victims.
that makes it 0,14% mortality rate which is on ranks of seasonal flu (0,1-0,2%)
take the next statement with a grain of salt, but i can (me, for my self, for my personal speculations) easily imagine halve the 1,1 million being victims to the flu or other illness, given how easy was to declare someone victim to "the virus"...
i'd say (me, for my self), i better go out for a shot of flu and get "the virus", then go out for "the shot of the virus" and get the flu.
either way it doesn't come out good.
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As a follow up to a previous discussion on fun vs discipline in computer languages and having gone through everyone's lists I noticed no-one mentioned Rexx.
Rexx was an interpreted job control language developed by the terribly clever Mike Cowlishaw (of IBM UK) in 1984 to replace EXEC and EXEC-2 on the IBM VM operating system (one of the best mainframe O/Ses in my opinion). It was also adopted as the main macro language for the XEDIT editor on the same O/S. I wrote all kinds of extension to the base XEDIT using Rexx.
It was great fun and you had to impose your own discipline otherwise it could quickly get away from you.
Rexx grew into a full language and was ported to OS/2 on the PC and then to Windows. It has been extended to have classes and all kinds of things apparently, now called NetRexx. I haven't used it really since my VM days although I've read about the new features.
Has anyone else used, or is using, this fun language in any form?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Never used Rexx but did assign XEDIT commands to PF keys when doing software updates that required changing hundreds of files.
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I used it briefly in the mid-90s when I was working for StorageTek, and we used VM servers to control our big automated tape libraries.
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I wrote a tape automation system using VM and 14 linked StorageTek tape robot silos to support a massive TPF shop in Germany. Some PC-based automation software emulating 3270 terminals was also used to "glue" the systems together and it used Rexx as a macro language as well. Later, I went to work for the Automation company in the US. They called me, at that time, a "Rexxpert"!
My boss at that time had a strong accent and pronounced my name, Robert, as "Robot" and the tape robots as "tape roberts"!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
modified 14-Oct-20 13:34pm.
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One of the best products ever made, and resurrected StorageTek from chapter 11. Sadly sold to Sun back in 2006 and then Sun was sold to Oracle.
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I had a small amount of exposure to it due to a previous colleague having written a point of sale system in Rexx.
He went on to become one of the board members on the Rexx language association.
The enthusiasm he communicated was what propelled me into the world of .NET and object oriented programming - so indirectly I owe a lot to Rexx.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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I have not thought of Rexx in a few decades. I used it in a previous job with a compiler (!) on a PC. I am trying to remember which job - it was during it late 1980s or early 1990s.
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Lord, grant me the serenity to accept that there are some things I just can’t keep up with, the determination to keep up with the things I must keep up with, and the wisdom to find a good RSS feed from someone who keeps up with what I’d like to, but just don’t have the damn bandwidth to handle right now.
© 2009, Rex Hammock
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Looks quite useful - thanks for posting that!
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I used Rexx in the 1988-1992 timeframe. I used it with IBM ISPF to create menus for development environment and screens for QA to submit batch jobs.
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I remember using REXX At Ft Sill. We were assigned tasks, then not allowed to do them (for about 8 months)). So we wrote a D & D game in REXX to kill time (and the local orcs)
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, navigate a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects! - Lazarus Long
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On the Amiga computers, you could use a version of Rexx called Arexx: ARexx - Wikipedia[^]
modified 6-Sep-22 21:01pm.
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Around 1992 or so, back when my ANSI-escape-sequence-Fu was strong, I was co-owner of a BBS running on an Amiga 2000. When we added a 2nd phone line, I wrote a 3-way chat extension in (A)Rexx (SysOp and 2 users). I still feel that Rexx is the most comfortable (for lack of a better word) of scripting/interpreted languages.
After the internet pretty much made BBSs a thing of the past, I wrote a USENET client in Arexx. Rexx is just fun.
PowerShell scripting would be really awesome if they could be written in Rexx. 😃
Eagles my fly, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.
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Many years ago I used REXX a lot on VM. I wrote small things like macros for XEDIT, and larger things like a source management system. I also created a port to VSE (before IBM provided it there, thanks to IBM for delivering the assembler source with VM). I loved it. I miss it these days.
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Rexx had the same luck of the OS/2. I have used none of them.
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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Until recently REXX (or to be more precise the open source ooREXX) was the scripting language of our comercial LabMaster FA product. We have now replaced REXX with Python, but I have written and maintained a lot of REXX code while working here. ooREXX is quite interesting as it adds objects to REXX while maintaining compatiblity with classic REXX.
Interestingly many years a ago we tried to recruit someone with REXX experience but we only managed to get a couple of CVs, both of which had very limited experience of the language.
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I programmed some utilities in Rexx for IBM hosts but although I liked it, it was only as part of a project and I didn't have time to go deeper into the language.
As an addition to your information about Rexx, I remember that since I didn't have easy access to our client's hosts, I tested my utilities on a curious Commodore Amiga porting of Rexx.
Sorry for my bad English
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I liked it a lot, used it about 28 years ago. The integration with Xedit and especially CMS Pipelines were very handy.
Frank
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I used Rexx extensively back in the mid to late 80's. It was such an improvement over EXEC-2 that scripting was fun.
The string parsing ability using "Parse" was amazingly powerful for parsing files.
A fun prank was to fire up XEDIT/Rexx in full screen mode on a terminal someone left unattended to simulate the VM/CMS logon screen and return humorous logon rejection messages.
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KEXX and KEDIT are still available after those many years from KEDIT.COM. I created countless scripts in many different environments and countries. The syntax is the same as REXX/XEDIT.
Simche Scherer
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