Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!sun-barr!sun!rfm@urth From: rfm@urth (Rich McAllister) Newsgroups: comp.lang.rexx Subject: Rexx description & history Message-ID: <108789@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Date: 8 Jun 89 04:30:08 GMT References: <25800@amdcad.AMD.COM> <12004@bcsaic.UUCP> <2568@bucsb.UUCP> Sender: news@sun.Eng.Sun.COM Reply-To: rfm@urth (Rich McAllister) Organization: sun Lines: 14 In-reply-to: ckd@bucsb.UUCP (Christopher Davis) In article <2568@bucsb.UUCP>, ckd@bucsb (Christopher Davis) writes: >Sure, I will... REXX stands for REstructured eXtended eXecutor. I believe >that it was originally developed by employees of IBM in Britain The language is the creation of Mike Cowlishaw, of IBM UK. MFC (as he is known from his userid, from his initials) designed and implemented the language basically by himself. He had plenty of comments, code contributions, and beta testing from the IBM network junkies, but MFC made all the final decisions. For a complete description, see _The REXX Language: A practical approach to programming_, M. F. Cowlishaw, Prentice-Hall, 1985. ISBN 0-13-780735-X. -- Rich McAllister (rfm@sun.com)