REXX is quite similar to Kix, its an interpreted language, good string handling, good OS interfaces etc.

I think its been around 15+ years, started on VM and MVS (IBM Mainframes) and has been fairly poular amongst the IBM Mainframe Dinosaurs (like myself )

Nowadays it runs on most platforms (DOS,Windows anything etc) and free versions are available for most of them.

We converted to kix because of its superior Windows OS interfaces, plus its is clearly being developed and REXX has pretty much stabilised.

Mark.