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Michael F. Cowlishaw

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Former IBM UK staff member, the inventor of REXX and an IBM Fellow and is the editor of the ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559 floating point math standard.

Software

  • STET – STructured Editing Tool (1977)
  • REXX - Programming language (1984)
  • LEXX - Programmable structured editor (1985)
  • LPEX - Live Parsing Editor
  • RexxCPS (Jan 1989)
  • PMGlobe (Nov 1991)
  • GoServe - Web/Gopher server (1993)
  • PMprintf - filter development aid
  • NetRexx - Programming language

Publications

  • The REXX Language - Prentice-Hall 1985, ISBN 0-13-780735-X
  • The REXX Language: A Practical Approach to Programming, Second Edition - Prentice-Hall 1990, ISBN 0-13-780651-5
  • The NetRexx Language - Prentice-Hall 1997, ISBN 0-13-806332-X
IBM Systems Journal
  • The design of the REXX language - Vol 23, No. 4, 1984
  • D. M. Chess; M. F. Cowlishaw: A large-scale computer conferencing system - Vol 26, No. 1, 1987
IBM Journal of Research and Development
  • LEXX – A programmable structured editor - Vol 31, No. 1, 1987

Proceedings of The REXX Symposium for Developers and Users
Introductory article rather than a history one as the title might suggest

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