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REXX Maintenance

REXX
KindProgramming language
Appeared1979
StatusMaintenance
CreatorMike Cowlishaw / IBM
FamilyREXX
Sourcewww.rexxla.org ↗

IBM's readable scripting language — written to prove that mainframe users deserved a humane command language; standardized, open-sourced, still running.

Created by Mike Cowlishaw

Mike Cowlishaw's REXX (1979) — IBM's Restructured Extended Executor — was the SAA scripting language: readable, powerful, and standard across IBM systems from CMS to OS/2.\n\nIt was AmigaDOS's ARexx (the Amiga's scripting standard) and OS/2's system language; Open Object Rexx continues it.

Sources

  1. rexxla.org/
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rexx