Will@cup.portal.com (Will E Estes) (04/18/91)
Please address questions about the following to
CATHIE@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU and NOT to me.
Info follows:
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1991 13:39 PST
From: CATHIE@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU
Subject: REXX Symposium
Please share this information:
Are you
a REXX User,
a REXX Developer,
interested in hearing about current REXX work or
REXX future plans???
If so,
you are cordially invited to attend the second
REXX SYMPOSIUM
for Developers and Users
Sponsored by the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Keynote Speaker: Mike Cowlishaw, author
Also featuring developers of REXX
for Unix, VAX, OS/2, Tandem, and Amiga
May 8 - 9, 1991
Asilomar, Pacific Grove, California
Program (confirmed as of 4/16/91):
NAME COMPANY PRODUCT TOPIC
Mike Cowlishaw IBM REXX Design of REXX; TBA
Bill Hawes AREXX Implementors' Panel
Charles Daney Quercus REXXTERM Wish List for Improvements
Personal REXX
John Hartman IBM Pipelines CMS Pipelines
Rick McGuire IBM SAA REXX OS/2 Interpreter
Neil Milsted TWG Uni-REXX Implementors' Panel
Bert Moser IBM REXX Compiler Compiler
Simon Nash IBM O-O REXX Object Oriented REXX
Keith Watts Kilowatt Portable REXX, REXX Parsing Capabilities
TREXX
George Crane SLAC Oracle REXX Interface
Eric Giguere Waterloo Command Standards
Dave Gomberg Tuning
Linda Green IBM REXXoids
Bob Flores CIA Shared Function Library
Marc Irvin Expert Systems and Expert
Software with REXX
Linda Littleton PSU Netnews: User Experience with
Large System Written in REXX
Brian Marks IBM Review of ANSI and Other
Language Discussions
Robert Pesner PC Dialogs PC Based REXX Function Packages
for Network Communications
Larry Rodda Banner
Ed Spire TWG Applicability to UNIX Environment
Bebo White SLAC Using REXX to Teach
Programming
In addition, two panel discussions are planned:
* "Why Use REXX for UNIX?" with moderator Jeff Lankford and
panelists Sam Drake, Jonathan Jenkins, Scott Ophof and Alan Thew.
* "REXX Implementors Answer Questions" with audience participation.
Fees:
Registration Only - $180
Complete Symposium Package - $500 (single lodging)
$360 (shared lodging)
The complete packages include lodging (3 nights), 9 meals,
3 social hours, coffee breaks, and all meeting literature.
Reservations:
To register for one of the complete packages, send a non-refundable
$50 deposit to:
Dave Gomberg
REXX Symposium 1991
7 Gateview Court
San Francisco, CA 94116-1941
USA
e-mail gomberg@ucsfvm.ucsf.edu
For the shared lodging option, please indicate the name of the
person with whom the room is to be shared OR if you would like to
be assigned an attendee with whom you will share your room.
VERY PRELIMINARY AGENDA:
9:00 Welcome
9:15 Green: REXXoids
10:00 BREAK
10:15 Cowlishaw
11:00 Marks: ANSI Update
12:00 LUNCH
APPLICATIONS TECHNIQUES
1:00 Littleton: Netnews Watts: Parsing
1:45 Crane: Oracle Interface Gomberg: Tuning
______________
2:30 BREAK
APPLICATIONS cont' WISHES
2:45 Irvin: Expert Systems Daney
3:30 Giguere: Command Standards
______________
4:00 BREAK
4:15 Nash: O-O
5:15 Discussion
GROUP DISCUSSION TIME NEEDED after Marks, Daney, Giguere
6:00 DINNER
7:45 Announcement Opportunity
8:00 Implementors Panel
TH IBM REXX OTHER PLATFORMS
9:00 McGuire: Interpreter Pesner: PC Functions
9:45 Moser: Compiler Spire: Unix
_______________ _______________
10:45 BREAK
11:00 Cowlishaw (maybe)
12:00 LUNCH
1:00 Unix Panel
2:45 BREAK
3:00 Hartman: Pipelines
4:00 Bebo:
4:30 Flores:
5:00 CLOSING