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From: jbeard@quintus.UUCP (Jeff Beard)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.rexx
Subject: Re: REXX definition
Message-ID: <1191@quintus.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jun 89 17:44:45 GMT
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The acronym REXX stands for Restructured Extended Executor Language
and is part of the VM/CMS environment as the System Product Interpreter.
This component is the EXEC (ie unixism :- script ) processor that is
akin to PL/1 in grammar.

Like most structured programs, it contains the constructs of

	IF,SELECT,DO WHILE, LEAVE, ... any the like.

REXX also contains an interface to XEDIT (the visual editor).