Re: End of an era

Any idea what Mike is going to do? He had been working on decimal arithmetic. He's clearly too young and too talented to completely retire. Bob Shannon Rocket Software -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: End of an era

On 18 Feb 2010 06:56:34 -0800, bshan...@rocketsoftware.com (Bob Shannon) wrote: Any idea what Mike is going to do? He had been working on decimal arithmetic. He's clearly too young and too talented to completely retire. There still is a need for decimal arithmetic.

End of an era

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