This is the genealogy of the programming language NetRexx:

NetRexx is a child of Rex and Java.
NetRexx was born in year 1991.
It became NetRexx 1.1 ISO in year 1999, and has not changed much since that time.

This genealogy is brought to you by the Programming Languages Genealogy Project.

Netrexx is a computer language, based on Rexx, but which is translated to Java. It was developed by IBM to ease Java development; It can be used in place of java.

A short example:
/* A simple Netrexx applet */

correctanswer = 24
loop forever
	say 'how many hours are in a day?'
	answer = ask
	if answer = correctanswer
		then
			do
			say 'correct'
			leave
		end
	else say 'There are not 'answer' hours in a day. - try again.'
	end
exit 0

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