I'm playing with a new web server and some wag suggested that a proper
test of things would be to implement a /really/ /different/ scripting
language.
I discounted a few (including TXL (Turing) and APL!) and eventually
settled on Assembler H in a S/370 sort of environment, since a friend
here is also a reformed bit-twiddler and should be able to help--he
owes me a favour ever since he asked me to hack together a public web
server actually running on MVS 3.8/Hercules, then promptly forgot what
he'd wanted it for!
I've still got some emulator code tucked away somewhere, so it
shouldn't be too much hard work to bolt it on, but I doubt it'll
support JITA (Just In Time Assembly) :-)
The only downside I can see it that I can't think of any job on the
web it'd be the best tool for. Perhaps I'll bolt Rexx in beside it for
practical purposes.
Does anyone have suggestions/comments before I commit the last thin
strands of my sanity to this, please? :-)
Roo
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