Welcome to the Rexx Language Association website!
The Rexx Language Association (RexxLA) is an independent, non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the use and understanding of the Rexx programming language. For more information about RexxLA and to learn how to join, visit our About RexxLA page.
14th December 2006: The RexxLA Board is pleased to announce the appointment of Howard Fosdick as the RexxLA Editor.
This appointment will be effective immediately until elections at the Annual General Meeting at the 2007 Rexx Symposium.
RICE
The RICE (RexxLA Internet Collaboration Effort) has begun. This is a project to bring all of the RexxLA Internet resources together into an environment under which
we, RexxLA, have more control, and to be able to provide more services to our members.
A
project plan (PDF) outlines the activities and progress of this effort. Comments via the members mailing list are welcome.
Annual Rexx Symposium
Each year RexxLA organizes the Symposium to provide a focal point for information about the Rexx family of languages and a venue for networking and collaboration among members of the Rexx community.
The 18th Annual International Rexx Symposium
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has been announced
The 2007 International Rexx Symposium will be held at the Sheraton Tampa Riverwalk in Tampa, Florida, USA from April 30th to May 3rd.
More (preliminary) information on the Symposium can be found at the following locations:- Symposium Announcement
- Call for Participation/Papers
- Symposium Schedule
- Symposium Abstracts including links to presentation material for RexxLA members.
- Symposium Speakers
- Symposium Registration
The Original Rexx site
The contents of Mike Cowlishaw's original web site is now available from RexxLA.
Open Object Rexx is now available!
Open Object Rexx has been released and is publically available. See the Downloads page at Sourceforge for source and binary releases.
Recent publications
- Haluk Polat has published another book in Turkish: XEDIT Yazimlayicisi. This book covers XEDIT, THE and KEDIT.
- The first Turkish book on Rexx: REXX Programlama Dili written by Haluk Polat is now available.
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Published in February 2005 was
Rexx: Programmer's Reference written by Howard Fosdick and published by John Wiley & Sons Inc. as
part of their Programmers Reference series under the Wrox imprint.
You can order the book at Amazon and Barnes & Noble
On-line membership application and renewals can now be paid via PayPal
See the Members page.
Points Of Interest
Do you want to know more about the Rexx Language?
A concise explanation of Rexx can be found in the
Wikipedia entry for Rexx
For more details on using the language, check out
Ian Collier's Rexx Introduction
or the
SHARE
Introduction to Rexx Tutorial.