V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (February 2016):
REXX
Restructured EXtended eXecutor [language] (IBM, SAA, ANSI)
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
Restructured EXtended eXecutor
REXX
System Product Interpreter
(REXX, or "System Product Interpreter", originally
known as "REX") A scripting language for IBM VM and MVS
systems, developed by M. Cowlishaw at IBM ca. 1979,
replacing EXEC2.
Versions: PC-Rexx for MS-DOS, AREXX for the Amiga, the
OS/2 implementation from IBM, WINREXX (Rexx for Windows,
from Quercus systems) and Personal Rexx (Rexx for MS-DOS,
from Quercus systems).
See also Regina, freerexx, imc.
REXXWARE is an implementation of REXX for Novell
NetWare.
Usenet newsgroup: news:comp.lang.rexx.
["The REXX Language: A Practical Approach to Programming",
M.F. Cowlishaw, 1985].
(1992-05-13)