Subj : Re: year 11 maths survey
To   : comp.programming
From : Wolfgang Riedel
Date : Mon Sep 12 2005 07:20 pm

gswork@mailcity.com wrote:
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> Richard Heathfield wrote:
> > Ben Pfaff said:
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> > > Richard Heathfield <invalid@invalid.invalid> writes:
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> > &STACK 12345
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> was it the fore runner to REXX, IBM EXEC perhaps?
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short early history and relation of EXEC, EXEC2 & REX(X):
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/awdtools/rexx/library/rexxhist.html

homepage of Mike Cowlishaw, Creator of Rexx, NetRexx, L[E|P]EX and (parts of?)
a General Decimal Arithmetik (IEEE 754) IBM ANSI C reference implemtation.
http://www2.hursley.ibm.com/mfcsumm.html

Wolfgang

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