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 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

Known 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 (page 105 in the PDF version).

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.