About RexxLA The Rexx Language Association (RexxLA) is an independent, non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the use and understanding of the Rexx programminglanguage. RexxLA manages several open source implementations of the Rexx language, two of those are previous commercial offerings from IBM. These are professionally crafted language implementations that come with abundant documentation. |
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RexxLA News 26th International Rexx Language Symposium March 30th - April 1st, 2015, Vienna, Austria. The 2015 Symposium will be held in Vienna, Austria. Mark these dates in your calendar! Have a look at the symposium page - details are here, and the schedule is nearing completion!
The International Rexx Symposium is the only technical conference dedicated to the Rexx family of programming languages, drawing speakers and attendees from around the world. The technical program will feature topics addressing Rexx solutions to business problems, application development challenges, Rexx language enhancements and extensions, novel Rexx programming ideas, and the design and implementation of Rexx interpreters and compilers. |
The Rexx Language Association (RexxLA) and the Open Object Rexx Development Team are pleased to announce the availability of Open Object Rexx (ooRexx) version 4.2.0, as of today, February 24th, 2014. ooRexx 4.2.0 is the latest open source version of IBM's old Object REXX interpreter. It is released under the Common Public License (CPL) v1.0. |
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CRX Open Source 2013-03-22: The fastest Classic Rexx interpreter CRX (Compact Rexx, the current holder of the RexxCPS record) has been open sourced by its maker, the late Dr. Brian Marks, as a gift to the Rexx community. Currently, it is available via Mike Cowlishaw's homepage. CRX consists of i486 Assembly code and runs on OS'ses that vary from (pc,ms)DOS to Windows 7. Its main purpose is to verify the X3.274-1996 ISO Standard Programming Language - REXX. Later this year, RexxLA will open a project in one of the repositories to enable a collaborative effort to safeguard the future of this very fast interpreter. Here is a presentation from 1999 discussing this product.
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Regina 3.7 has been released on October 16th, 2012. Regina is an ANSI-compliant Classic Rexx interpreter that has been ported to most Unix platforms (Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, etc.) and also to OS/2, eCS, DOS, Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP, Amiga, AROS, QNX4.x, QNX6.x, BeOS, MacOS X, EPOC32, AtheOS, OpenVMS, SkyOS and OpenEdition. Rexx is a programming language that was designed to be easy to use for inexperienced programmers yet powerful enough for experienced users. It is also a language ideally suited as a macro language for other applications. Regina is currently licensed under the GPL and is maintained by RexxLA officer Mark Hessling. |
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NJPipes Open Source
Pipelines enthousiasts will be happy to know that NJPipes, the Pipelines implementation for NetRexx and Java, will be open sourced by the Rexx Language Associationon (2012-03-13). Ed Tomlinson, its creator, has donated his implementation, which is being readied for release. John Hartmann, the father of Pipelines, has promised to provide a foreword to the new documentation. |
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BSF4ooRexx Generally Available |
BSF4ooRexx is a Java language binding for the scripting language ooRexx. It allows ooRexx programmers to directly use the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) libraries. It allows, for example, implementation of Java methods in ooRexx and callbacks from Java to ooRexx. It camouflages Java so that it resembles ooRexx by being dynamically typed and caseless. BSF4ooRexx comes with built-in support for programming OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice.org and allows ooRexx to be used as a macro language. BSF4ooRexx version for ooRexx 4.1.0 and later, exploiting the new ooRexx kernel (e.g. allowing implementation of Java methods in ooRexx, callbacks from Java to ooRexx). |
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NetRexx Open Source I am very happy to be able to announce that today, the 8th of June 2011 (World IPv6 Day) IBM has sent RexxLA the source code of the reference implementation of the NetRexx translator for administration and release under the ICU open source license. I would like to thank IBM, and everyone at IBM and RexxLA who has put in hard work to make this possible. This has secured the future of NetRexx, our favourite computer language, and enables us to do work on it to keep it up to date whenever this seems necessary. A special thanks to Mike Cowlishaw is in order, who not only invented and produced the language, but also was of invaluable assistance during the open source process. This brings an end to a long period in which some have expressed doubts regarding the perspective of the language and the intentions of the parties involved. Now that we have this behind us, the real work can start. The language board will convene and draw up plans for the future. Because a lot of the work of readying the source code for publication has been done over the years past, there will be no long delay in having it available in a source code repository on the net. The www.netrexx.org site will be on the air shortly. The IBM NetRexx web site will be changed to reflect this new status of NetRexx, and will cease to function later this year. The binary distribution will be available from www.netrexx.org initially and will reflect NetRexx 3.00, which is an almost unchanged release that contains the required source code modifications of the translator and has some small fragments of code adapted to be able to build on more recent Java versions. It is expected that 3.01 will be available from the code repository and will be the first official RexxLA release. René Vincent Jansen |
NetRexx blends the clean, easy-to-learn syntax of Rexx with the robustness and portability of the Java™ environment. The result is a language tuned for both scripting and application development, and designed for both interpretation and compilation – a truly general-purpose language.