On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 07:21:31PM -0500, Gabe Goldberg wrote:
> Mike Cowlishaw, developer of the REXX language, author of several books,
> and IBM Fellow for quite some time, will take early retirement from IBM
> March 5. It's hard to exaggerate -- or even grasp, really -- how much
> REXX changed IBM computing and how those lucky enough to know REXX get
> their work done.

Funnily enough I first encountered REXX when it became the standard
scripting language in AmigaOS around 1990, where it had the
novel-to-me property of being able to script and control GUI functions
in programs.

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Rodger Donaldson                [email protected]

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