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Mike Cowlishaw Alive

Mike Cowlishaw
KindPerson
Born—
StatusAlive
Fieldprogramming languages
Sourcespeleotrove.com ↗

Created Rexx at IBM — the scripting language that ran on everything from VM/CMS to OS/2 and the Amiga (ARexx).

Created REXX

Created REXX (1979) at IBM — the readable, portable scripting language that became the SAA standard — and defined decimal arithmetic in software.\n\nIBM Fellow; the decimal-arithmetic standard is his life's work alongside the language.

Sources

  1. speleotrove.com/
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Cowlishaw