Michael F. Cowlishaw

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
• NetRexx - Programming language
• GoServe - Web/Gopher server
• PMprintf

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

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• A Practical Approach to Programming the Rexx Language

Proceedings of The REXX Symposium for Developers and Users

• REXX 4.0 - June 11,1990
• The design of REXX - May 8-9,1991

Introductinary article rather than a history one as the title might suggest

• REXX - The Future - May 18-20, 1993

Links

• Personal homepage