Posting this information here in response to Michael's questions since I don't have posting access to the RexxLA list:
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 7:00 AM, Michael Lueck [via Rexx Language Association Forum] <ml-node+s44760n2417...@n6.nabble.com> wrote: > Greetings RexxLA'ers, > > I noticed on the Object Rexx Wikipedia page it states the designer as: > Simon C. Nash (IBM). So where Rick and Simon collaborating together? > Simon developed the initial object-oriented concepts and the original prototype code. He began working with the development group in Endicott starting in 1989. There was a lot of work/meetings from that point working on the fine points of the specification and it was fully turned over to Endicott in 1993. The original prototype was almost totally rewritten in 93/94 (in C) and got a major rework again in 95 when it was converted from C to C++. I suspect I can claim authorship of about 80-90% of the final code that was turned over to Boeblingen. > > And I recall hearing it was Rick who developed Classic Rexx for OS/2. > The 1.2 version was developed by a team of people for which I was the lead. I did a lot of performance work on that version that shipped in OS/2 1.3, then completely rewrote the interpreter to create the 32-bit version. The 32-bit work was basically all my work. Rick
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