On Thu, 1 Mar 2012 16:08:46 -0500, Tony Harminc wrote: >On 1 March 2012 16:01, McKown, John 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. > This is an example of why I'd like to see a fully ASCII-friendly Unix System Services. You should just be able to compile Python and it should Just Work.
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