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Foreword
Rexx is a very underrated programming language; elegant in design, simple syntax, easy to learn, use
and maintain, yet as powerful as any other scripting language available today.
In 1979, Mike Cowlishaw, IBM fellow, designed a “human-centric” programming language, Rexx.
Cowlishaw’s premise was that the programmer should not have to tell the interpreter what the
language syntax was in each program they wrote; that was the job of the interpreter. So unlike most
other programming languages, Rexx does not suffer from superfluous, meaningless punctuation
characters throughout the code.
Since the release of Rexx outside of IBM, Rexx has been ported to virtually all operating systems and
was formally standardised with the publishing of the ANSI Standard for Rexx in 1996. In late 2004, IBM
transferred their implementation of Object REXX to the Rexx Language Association under an Open
Source license. This event signalled a new era in the history of Rexx.
This book provides a comprehensive reference and programming guide to the Rexx programming lan­
guage. It shows how to use the most popular implementations of Rexx and Rexx external function pack­
ages and is suited to both the programmer learning Rexx for the first time as well as the seasoned Rexx
developer requiring a single, comprehensive reference manual.