Restructured EXtended eXecutor

language (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 NovellNetWare.

Usenet newsgroup: news:comp.lang.rexx.

["The REXX Language: A Practical Approach to Programming",

M.F. Cowlishaw, 1985].

(1992-05-13)