Time Off

I am posting a little less frequently right now. There are a few reasons. I have a total of four blogs, two on Blogger, two on WordPress. Since the dashboard on WordPress is several orders of magnitude better than what is available with Blogger, I tend to spend more time and energy over there, even to the point of considering moving these two over there.

Also, I am running into some tasks with REXX that I haven't yet learned to perform. For example, I wanted to take a directory of JPEGs and sort them by date, creating a new subdirectory for each date and putting the photos in the appropriate directory. However, I have not yet found how to get the date with REXX. Creating the directories would generally take a call to the operating system.

On the other hand, with REBOL, it appears to be much simpler. I have not yet found out how to get the date information in REBOL either, but if I do, there will be another project around the house that goes to another language (Perl, Java, Python, REBOL, Squeak SmallTalk, Pascal, ...) because I didn't have time to figure out how to do it with REXX.

I am not giving up on REXX. I have already committed myself to finish some things that I have started. However, I may be less active for a month or two. I'll still post as I learn more, but I'm busy trying to learn REXX, REBOL, Squeak, and Italian at the same time. I also want to move on to learning more about Open Object REXX. I feel that it is likely to have more built-in functionality that I'm having trouble finding in standard REXX.