I have think more or less along the same lines Grant., since I have retired .. Scott
On Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 1:22 PM Tomasz Rola <rto...@ceti.com.pl> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 03, 2020 at 10:18:13AM -0600, Grant Taylor wrote: > [...] > > There are a group of hobbyists and enthusiasts that have taken MVS > > 3.8j, which decidedly does not include REXX or prerequisites > > therefor, and backported (?) REXX to it, including re-creating any > > prerequisites. > > > > This is the creative and enthusiastic spirit that created Unix 50 > > years ago and helped Linux become what it is today. Just think for > > a moment where the mainframe could be in 10 or 20 years if even some > > of these creative efforts were directed at enhancing the mainframe. > > Perhaps this kind of spirit is not compitible with spirit of IBM? > > Perhaps one not only needs to imagine what could have happened, but > also why something does not happen / have not happened? > > No, I do not have the answers. I think a good question is worth a > thousand answers, perhaps. > > -- > Regards, > Tomasz Rola > > -- > ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** > ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** > ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** > ** ** > ** Tomasz Rola mailto:tomasz_r...@bigfoot.com ** > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Scott Ford IDMWORKS z/OS Development ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
