Rick McGuire

USA based gent that was the IBM developer that integrated the original REXX interpreter into VM/CMS back in 1982 and from then on until 1995 he was IBM's lead architect for REXX and principal developer of the Classic Rexx interpreter for OS/2, in addition to taking over the development of the IBM Object REXX interpreter in 1994. From 1995 Rick was involved in IBM programming languages projects, including 3 years as a member of IBM's Java Virtual Machine development team.

After the Object REXX interpreter was open sourced, Mr McGuire continued as a Principal Architect of the now renamed Open Object REXX project at the behest of Rexx Language Association

Publications

 * IBM SAA REXX for OS/2 - Published as part of Proceeding of The REXX Symposium for Developer and Users June 11,1990, page 101
 * Introduction to the OS/2 1.3 version of REXX, the published paper contains only the slides shown during the talk and not notes or transcript of the talk.


 * REXX Object-Oriented Extensions - PSP Technical Interchange 1994
 * OS/2 REXX Tutorial - PSP Technical Interchange 1994
 * Getting Ready for Object REXX - REXX Symposium 1995
 * Object REXX Up Close and Personal - REXX Symposium 1995