Screaming Penguin - Source Does Matter

Deskop Linux has a look at Rexx, a long and not so forgotten scripting language that the author espouses as a great solution for scripting on Linux.

Now, as an old Amiga user, EMACS and Rexx (specifically MEMACS and ARexx) are two of the things I remember most fondly about the platform. Rexx was, for lack of a better analogy, the AppleScript of the Amiga and OS/2, and really great at it.

Rexx or no, though, this does bring up an intersting point about the Linux desktop: unification. With GNOME/CORBA, GNOME/MONO, KDE/DCOP and the mish mosh of Python, Java, XUL/XPCOM and whatever the hell OO.o is that make up the Linux desktop, having a unified scripting language that can cover all those bases would be a great advancement, perhaps even opening the door to something akin to the fancy new "Automator" in OSX. I haven't looked at the various flavors of Rexx the author mentions, though I played with NetRexx (a Java-based Rexx from IBM) when it was first released. However, none of the Rexxes mentioned seem to really cover this kind of base.

Is there anything out there that will really cover the whole slew of external interfaces from which the "Linux Desktop" is really made up