From: Simon Nash <[email protected]> Sent: 15 June 2026 21:54 To: Mike Cowlishaw <[email protected]>; 'Open Object Rexx Developer Mailing List' <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Oorexx-devel] Ad ooRexx file types ... Thanks, Mike! The name Oryx was chosen by Ian Brackenbury, the manager who recruited me to work on the project. The lovely Oryx logo was created by Dave Renshaw. I did my best to see the Oryx name retained but as the project approached product status, the influence of corporate naming standards led to the choice of the name OREXX (Object REXX) which later became OOREXX (Open Object REXX). I think the extension .orx is ideal because it combines elements of all the above names. I think it's better to have one extension rather than a choice of two which is likely to lead to confusion. Best regards, Simon On 15/06/2026 17:22, Mike Cowlishaw wrote: Copying this to Simon Nash .. I believe it was he that came up with the name 'Oryx'? Mike -----Original Message----- From: Rony G. Flatscher <mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected]> Sent: 15 June 2026 15:08 To: Open Object Rexx Developer Mailing List <mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected]> Subject: [Oorexx-devel] Ad ooRexx file types ... In a discussion a couple of weeks ago in the context of cREXX it was proposed that each Rexx language would use a proper file extension, if the contained code can only be run by that language, hence ".crexx". In that discussion, it also became clear that a proper extension for ooRexx programs should be used if the program could only be executed by ooRexx. We already have an extension ".orx" that we could use (associated with the operating system during installation), hence suggesting to use that extension for any new Rexx programs that can only be run by ooRexx. --- In this context, another idea, suggestion: if not mistaken, one of the project names at IBM when developing "Object REXX" was "oryx". There used to be an oryx logo on the OS/2 developer CDs, if I recall correctly. (Back then, quite a few programming languages would use an animal as their logo.) Nowadays, not being confined to FAT 8.3 file names anymore, how about supporting an optional filetype named ".oryx"? Any comments? ---rony _______________________________________________ Oorexx-devel mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel
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