Introducing REXX into the engineering curriculum

The restructured extended executor language (REXX), developed by IBM, is a language developed with programmers in mind. It is an interpreted language rather than a compiled language, so it is relatively fast in execution. REXX is available on both mainframes and personal computers. REXX is being introduced at the undergraduate level in the Electrical Engineering Department at Southern University on an experimental basis. Program results are presented. It is shown that REXX is easy to learn. Menu driven programs and customized application programs are developed efficiently. Because external programs can be called by REXX, programs written by several programmers in different languages can be utilized to solve a given program