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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: VLT and other TLAs
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Date: 6 Mar 89 14:40:17 GMT
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In <101@ssibbs.UUCP>, jac@ssibbs.UUCP (James Crotinger) writes:
>   (I'm afraid I have no idea what either VLT or REXX stand for, if
>anything. Sorry. 8-). 

  According to some, REXX has an acronymical meaning, but there seems to be no
reference to it in Cowlishaw's book, "The REXX Language; A Practical Approach
to Programming". In it he states "The REXX language (originally called "REX"),
borrows from many earlier languages; PL/1, Algol, and even APL have had their
influences. I have not been able to find anything in his book that attributes a
meaning to the name REXX.

My European friends tell me VLT stands for "Villy Langenveld's Terminal"

:-) :-) :-)

-larry

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