Rexx Historical Documents

This page lists some historical documents relating to the Rexx programming language, together with some of the earliest Rexx (or REX) programs.

Here's what's here:

• REX Initial specification [29 Mar 1979]
• REX 1.04 news [21 Aug 1979]
• REX 2.08 reference card [30 Oct 1980] – PDF
• REX 2.08 reference card [30 Oct 1980] – Text Macro Processor source
• REX first public paper – SHARE 56 [18 Feb 1981]
• REX 2.50 announcement [27 Oct 1981]
• REXX for VM/SP3 announcement [9 Feb 1983]
• REX 3.20 news – final internal release [11 Jul 1983]
• REXX for TSO/E announcement [19 Apr 1988]
• REXX Compiler announcement [7 Feb 1989]
• First REXX Symposium announcement [17 May 1990]
• REXX for AS/400 announcement [21 Aug 1990]
• REXX for OS/2 announcement [30 Oct 1990]
• X3 announcement for ANSI REXX [12 Nov 1990]
• REXX for VSE announcement [9 Feb 1993]
• REXX for AIX/6000 announcement [19 Oct 1993]
• Call For Participation in the "REXX Language Association" [5 Feb 1994]
• REXX for Netware announcement [1 Mar 1994]
• REXX for CICS/ESA announcement [5 Apr 1994]
• REXX for PC DOS 7 announcement [28 Feb 1995]
• Object REXX for Windows announcement [25 Feb 1997]
• 25 years of Rexx – a personal view [4 May 2004]

And some early programs and miscellaneous information:

• FIRSTREX, the first REX test program [May 1979]
• QT, an early REXX program [Dec 1979+]
• CASE, an early 'bilingual' XEDIT Macro [15 Dec 1981]
• JUSTONE, a unique word sorter [9 Apr 1984]
• Histogram of REX module sizes [1979-1984]

Copyright © Mike Cowlishaw 1979, 2012.