rfm@urth (Rich McAllister) (06/08/89)
In article <2568@bucsb.UUCP>, ckd@bucsb (Christopher Davis) writes: >Sure, I will... REXX stands for REstructured eXtended eXecutor. I believe >that it was originally developed by employees of IBM in Britain The language is the creation of Mike Cowlishaw, of IBM UK. MFC (as he is known from his userid, from his initials) designed and implemented the language basically by himself. He had plenty of comments, code contributions, and beta testing from the IBM network junkies, but MFC made all the final decisions. For a complete description, see _The REXX Language: A practical approach to programming_, M. F. Cowlishaw, Prentice-Hall, 1985. ISBN 0-13-780735-X. -- Rich McAllister (rfm@sun.com)
exspes@gdr.bath.ac.uk (P E Smee) (06/09/89)
It is also claimed by IBM that there has never been a bug report accepted agains the REXX interpreter. As the story goes, whenever the author receives a note from a customer which complains that in some circumstances REXX behaves non-intuitively, he is able to explain (a) why it is in fact intuitive at a deeper level, and (b) why any of the alternative interpretations of a particular construct would have had undesireable effects in more common contexts of use.