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From: CATHIE@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.lang.rexx,slac.lang.rexx
Subject: Agenda for REXX Symposium
Message-ID: <91108.101145CATHIE@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: 18 Apr 91 18:11:45 GMT
Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
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                   REXX Symposium Preliminary Agenda

 Wednesday, May 8

      9:00  Cathie Dager:  Welcome

      9:15  Linda Green:  REXXoids

     10:00  BREAK

     10:15  Mike Cowlishaw:  Design of REXX

     11:00  Brian Marks:  Review of ANSI and Other Language Discussions

     12:00  LUNCH

            APPLICATIONS Track              WISHES Track
            ------------------              ------------

      1:00  Linda Littleton:  Netnews       Eric Giguere: Command Standards

      1:45  George Crane: Oracle Interface  Charles Daney:  Improvements

      2:30  BREAK

            APPLICATIONS cont'              TECHNIQUES Track
            -----------------               ----------------

      2:45  Marc Irvin:  Expert Systems     Keith Watts:  Parsing

      3:30  Irvin continues                 Dave Gomberg:  Tuning
            _____________________________________________________

      4:00  BREAK

      4:15  Simon Nash: Object Oriented REXX

      5:15  Discussion

      6:00  DINNER

      7:45  Announcement Opportunity

      8:00  Implementors Panel:  Mike Cowlishaw, Charles Daney,  Bill Hawes,
                                 Neil Milsted, Rick McGuire, Keith Watts

 Thursday, May 9

            IBM REXX                        OTHER PLATFORMS
            --------                        ---------------

      9:00  Rick McGuire:  Interpreter      Robert Pesner:  PC Functions

      9:45  Bert Moser:  Compiler           Ed Spire:  Unix and VAX
            ____________________________________________________________

     10:45  BREAK

     11:00  TBA

     12:00  LUNCH

      1:00  Unix Panel:  Jeff Lankford, Alan Thew, Scott Ophof,
                         Jonathan Jenkins, Sam Drake

      2:45  BREAK

      3:00  Bebo White:  Using REXX to Teach Programming

      3:30  Bob Flores:  Shared Function Library

      4:00  John Hartman:  Pipelines

      5:00  CLOSING