Everything about Rexx

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: RexxA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Rexx Sineması’nın Son Perdesi: Sinemada Mekânsal Kayıp ve Toplumsal HafızaInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Rexx Programmer's ReferenceThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: The design of the REXX languageCited 10 times
5. Go sideways: ARexxA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: XEDITA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• The design of the REXX language

  M. F. Cowlishaw · 1984 · IBM Systems Journal · 10 citations

• P14 T-REXX: first results from the Jurassic beamline

  Sam Horrell, Michael Agthe, David von Stetten · 2019 · Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances · 3 citations

• The early history of REXX

  M. Cowlishaw · 1994 · IEEE Annals of the History of Computing · 1 citations

• Partial compilation of REXX

  R. Y. Pinter, P. Vortman, Z. Weiss · 1991 · IBM Systems Journal · 1 citations

• The design of the REXX language

  M Cowlishaw · 1987 · ACM SIGPLAN Notices · 1 citations

• Empowering Net Ware With REXX

  Lew Shepherdson · 1995 · International Journal of Network Management · 0 citations

• APL2 and the CMS system: Exploiting the APL2/REXX connection

  D. M. Weintraub · 1987 · ACM SIGAPL APL Quote Quad · 0 citations

• REXX on TSO/E

  G. E. Hoernes · 1989 · IBM Systems Journal · 0 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Rexx Sineması’nın Son Perdesi: Sinemada Mekânsal Kayıp ve Toplumsal Hafıza

  Esra Köten, İsmail Burak Malkoç · 2025 · Alternatif Politika · 0 citations

• Implementing electric field-stimulated X-ray crystallography on EMBL P14 T-REXX using Hadamard time-resolved X-ray crystallography

  M. Klureza, J. Estengre Pérez, E. Römer · 2026 · Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances · 0 citations

• Rexx Sineması’nın Son Perdesi: Sinemada Mekânsal Kayıp ve Toplumsal Hafıza

  Esra Köten, İsmail Burak Malkoç · 2025 · Alternatif Politika · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• 📕Rexx Programmer's ReferenceHoward Fosdick · 2005
• RexxPeter C. Kiesel · 1992
• Rexx Reference Summary HandbookRichard K. Goran · 1993
• The REXX LanguageMichael F. Cowlishaw · 1985
• Mastering OS/2 REXXGabriel F. Gargiulo · 1994
• REXX in the TSO environmentGabriel F. Gargiulo · 1990
• Teach Yourself REXX in 21 daysWilliam F. Schindler, Esther Schindler · 1994
• Rexx Programmer's Reference (Programmer to Programmer)Howard Fosdick · 2005

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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