I think it has to do with people using Zoc.  Zoc doesn't take any 
sort of special setup to use for tradewars, there are public scripts 
available for it, it's still being updated, and you can use it 
without paying for it if you want to sit through the nag screen.  
Then, since people had REXX scripts for zoc, attac and swath decided 
to support it too, probably in hopes of winning over users.  REXX 
probably isn't the best language, but it works well for tradewars.  
At this point, it's probably mainly used because people already have 
stuff written in rexx and know the language.

On 27 Dec 2002 at 19:08, Kavanagh wrote:

> 
> Helpers, Terminal programs:
> 
> From my reading here and elsewhwere the latest Swath version embraces
ZOC (REXX, OS/2).
> 
> Has baffled me for years in TW. I despise microsoft crap but IBM never
supported OS/2 - deserved to die for that - why use REXX? lots of excellent
PC DOS terminal programs. Telemate, Qmodem, etc.
> 
> 
> 
>

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