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The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
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REXX
System Product Interpreter
<language> (REXX, or "System Product Interpreter", originally
known as "REX") A {script}ing 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)