REXX (restructured extended executor) is a [[Programming Languages|Programming Language]]. - [Website](https://www.rexxla.org/) (REXX Language Association) - Source - [Documentation](https://rexxinfo.org/reference/index_reference.html) (community collection) - [Documentation](https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/ian.collier/Docs/rexx_ref/) (REXX/imc documentation) - AlternativeTo > Rexx (restructured extended executor) is a high-level programming language developed at IBM by Mike Cowlishaw. # Notability # Philosophy # Platform Support REXX has been ported to almost as many platforms as [[Doom]]. It is truly something to behold. ## OOREXX OOREXX supports pretty much all [[POSIX]] systems (including [[Linux]], [[Solaris]], [[AIX]], [[MacOS]]), plus both 32-bit and 64-bit modern and retro versions of [[Windows]]. Runs on hardware as diverse as [[x86]], [[SPARC]], [[POWERPC]], and [[ARM]]. # Features # Tips # Resources ## Implementations Two different [lists](https://rexxinfo.org/downloads/index_downloads.html) of [implementations](https://speleotrove.com/rexxhist/rexxplat.html) can be found online. - [Website](https://regina-rexx.sourceforge.io/) (Regina REXX Interpreter) - [Website](https://www.oorexx.org/index.rsp) (Open Object REXX) - [Website](https://www.netrexx.org/) (NetREXX, a [[JVM]] implementation) ## Visual REXX There are a variety of GUI REXX environments. - [[#Vx-REXX]] - https://www.os2site.com/sw/dev/rexx/vprexx/index.html - VisPro REXX - Bronze - Gold ### Vx-REXX VX-REXX is a graphical programming environment for REXX which allows the creation of 16-bit [[OS-2]] GUI applications developed by [[Watcom]]. - https://archive.org/details/VX-REXXProgrammersGuide - https://www.edm2.com/0206/vrexx.html - https://www.os2site.com/sw/dev/rexx/vxrexx/ - https://www.robvanderwoude.com/rexx.php - https://trac.netlabs.org/vxapps - https://www.os2world.com/oldforum/index.php?topic=173.0 - https://www.rexxla.org/presentations/2023/full_stack_rexx.pdf - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VX-REXX # References - https://speleotrove.com/mfc/mfc.html - https://rexxinfo.org/ - https://web.archive.org/web/20120110223602/http://www.mindspring.com/~dave_martin/RexxFAQ.html