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Rexx Is Still Strong After 25 years

Posted by timothy on from the not-the-tiny-PDA dept.

therexxman writes "March marks the 25th anniversary of the Rexx programming language, and to celebrate the Rexx Language Association is hosting the 15th Annual Rexx Symposium at the IBM Research Labs in Boeblingen, Germany, from May 2 to 6, 2004. Full details of the Symposium can be found in the 2004 Rexx Symposium Announcement. Many of the world's 'Rexxperts' will be in attendance including Rexx's founder, Decimal Arithmetic guru, and IBM Fellow, Mike Cowlishaw."

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  1. wait a minute by Stevyn · · Score: 5, Funny

    I thought it died off 65 million years ago.

    1. Re:wait a minute by alphakappa · · Score: 5, Funny

      I thought ti died off 65 million years ago

      No, THAT was Fortran.

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  2. Rexx is good... by ShallowThroat · · Score: 4, Funny

    but it's no FORTRAN.

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  3. in other news by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    punch-card lovers association held its annual conference and proclaimed punch-cards superior to all modern IDEs, compilers, editors and debuggers.

  4. Best of Primitive Computing by handy_vandal · · Score: 3, Funny

    punch-card lovers association held its annual conference and proclaimed punch-cards superior to all modern IDEs, compilers, editors and debuggers.

    Punch cards are all good and fine.

    But if you want real power in a computing machine, what you need is something like Stonehenge, which has the advantage of ... umm, no hardware failure, and zero down-time (if the sun is shining).

    -kgj

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    1. Re:Best of Primitive Computing by jackbird · · Score: 4, Funny

      Isn't that 50% downtime?

    2. Re:Best of Primitive Computing by Lozzer · · Score: 5, Funny

      Never been to England? More like 90% :-)

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  5. Misread the title by QuantumFTL · · Score: 3, Funny

    At first I thought the title read Rexx is Still Wrong After 25 Years.

    I was like, "Damn straight!"

    Cheers,
    Justin

  6. Rexxperts by Citizen+of+Earth · · Score: 4, Funny

    Many of the world's 'Rexxperts' will be in attendance

    Such as Rooby-Rooby Roo.

  7. Rexx Is Still Strong After 25 years by dwalsh · · Score: 3, Funny

    Good Dog.

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