Restructured EXtended eXecutor
INTERPRETED PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE
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REXX, or "System Product Interpreter", originally
known as "REX") A
scripting language for
IBM VM and
MVS
systems, developed by M. Cowlishaw at
IBM ca. 1979,
replacing
EXEC2.
Versions: PC-
Rexx for
MS-DOS,
AREXX for the
Amiga, the
OS/2 implementation from IBM, WINREXX (
Rexx for Windows,
from
Quercus systems) and Personal
Rexx (
Rexx for MS-DOS,
from Quercus systems).
See also
Regina,
freerexx,
imc.
REXXWARE is an implementation of
REXX for {Novell
NetWare}.
Usenet newsgroup:
news:comp.lang.rexx.
[
"The REXX Language: A Practical Approach to Programming",
M.F. Cowlishaw, 1985].
(1992-05-13)