I believe he also developed NetRexx, which was a lot easier to comprehend than JAVA; at least for me.
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 7:43 PM, Ivan Warren <i...@vmfacility.fr> wrote: > Gabe Goldberg wrote: > >> Mike Cowlishaw, developer of the REXX language, author of several books, >> and IBM Fellow for quite some time, will take early retirement from IBM >> March 5. It's hard to exaggerate -- or even grasp, really -- how much REXX >> changed IBM computing and how those lucky enough to know REXX get their work >> done. >> >> > Not only is Mike the father of REXX, but he also issued some other work, > including some Decimal number computations library - which incidentally is > also used in other products, including some packages that are used by some > mainframe aficionados ;) > > --Ivan >
