> Never get emotionally attached to a programming language.
LOL.... PHP, from my cold dead hands :)
Still on this list at #6 - https://pypl.github.io/PYPL.html
And there are other things I've grown way too attached to. My Windows
html/php/etc editor "Dreamweaver" from 2004 still works on Win 10, but
suddenly locked up at startup last week. I assumed it was due to quiet
updates to Win 10 and that old unsupported code would never work again.
I was staring blankly into space saying, Oh no... oh no...
Then I figured out it was just stuck waiting for Samba on a Raspberry Pi
that had died overnight. Whew!
On 12/20/2021 6:23 AM, David Crayford wrote:
On 20/12/21 8:42 pm, René Jansen wrote:
Yes, that is what NetRexx is for.
TBH, I'm not interested in NetRexx. It suffers from the same weaknesses
as classic REXX in that it only has one data type. The NetRexx manual
has examples of dynamically calling a JavaScript engine to parse JSON
which is totally lame. If I were to use a JVM language other than Java I
would choose Kotlin which is strongly typed and has null safety baked in
and cool features such as co-routines. REXX is impoverished and it's not
going to get any better in my lifetime. Never get emotionally attached
to a programming language. In my career I've programmed professionally
in at least 6 languages and I would happily switch if a better one
became available. Python has 47M downloads on the VS Code marketplace
which is an indication of it's popularity and why IBM have invested in
bringing it to z/OS.
On 20 Dec 2021, at 04:37, David Crayford <[email protected]> wrote:
There's a Python client library for Kafka but it would be a very
heavy lift to implement a client on z/OS using REXX.
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