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. -- Rodger Donaldson [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
