In the Redbook I mentioned, I wrote a chapter to compare NetRexx with Rexx. And, as opposed to OO-Rexx, NetRexx is not upward compatible with REXX.
I didn't visit NetRexx recently, but as NetRexx is in Java, NetRexx runs on all Java platforms (this too should appear in this redbook) 2010/9/29 Alan Ackerman <alan.acker...@bankofamerica.com> > Unfortunately, if you find the old CMS JAVA, I'm sure it will NOT use IEEE > floating point. A decent > CMS Java Virtual Machine with a JIT would perhaps run very well. But who is > going to write it? It's > not going to come from Sun/Oracle. Sun doesn't even provide one for the > Macintosh -- Apple > does. There are a heck of a lot more Macs than copies of CMS. > > I don't know whether CMS JAVA truly supported multi-threading, though, > while Java does. Could > lead to problems porting Java to CMS. Does anyone know? > > I gather that with NetRexx, Mike Cowlishaw tried to fix the mistakes in > REXX. At least he replaced > do/end with loop/end. (For the looping cases of 'do'.) In other ways he > significantly enhanced > REXX. I don't think NetRexx is upwardly compatible with REXX, though. > > I suspect there are far more programmers literate in Java than in REXX. > Perhaps not among > mainframers, though. Does anyone know how much NetRexx is used in z/OS? > > My employer's standard language is Java. Another strike against CMS. > > Alan Ackerman > > On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 06:38:35 -0700, Barton Robinson < > bar...@vm1.velocity-software.com> > wrote: > > >Right, so even better chance that java on cms would be more than > >acceptable. Too bad there's no business case. > > > >John P. Hartmann wrote: > >> Barton, you overlook the lack of IEEE floating point in the hardware > >> in those days. > >> > >> On 28 September 2010 04:08, Barton Robinson > >> <bar...@vm1.velocity-software.com> wrote: > >> > >> > >=========================================================== > ============== > -- Kris Buelens, IBM Belgium, VM customer support
