On 1 March 2012 16:01, McKown, John <john.mck...@healthmarkets.com> wrote:

> What would I like? A complete GNU tool chain. Also, current versions of Perl, 
> python, ruby, gawk, sed, grep, bash, vim, emacs(?). Of course, I realise that 
> IBM cannot afford to supply these things for free. I, personally, cannot 
> attempt to "port" this because: (1) we don't have a C license; (2) we are CPU 
> critical and constantly monitoring to reduce our MSUs to reduce our software 
> costs; (3) I likely don't have the talent.

You're not likely to see a z/OS python, I think. Python's creator is
EBCDIC-hostile, and even rejected some carefully thought out support
code that someone else contributed a few years ago.

Tony H.

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