On Mon, 3 Jan 2022 11:35:57 -0500, Bob Bridges wrote: > ... I could see no way I could use it for my client's work. My job has a > lot to do with extracting data for my clients, but I also write tools for > their people to use to get the same data time after time, and really I ought > to do that in a language that > a) someone there can maintain after I leave, > and of course > b) doesn't have to be downloaded ... > With some clients it should be reasonable to ask: o Whether they have ooRexx a priori. o What implementation they prefer (provided they ask for exclusive IP rights.)
> especially for the purpose. The languages that are available more or less > universally are my palette, in other words, when working for my clients. In > Windows that's VBA and VBS, .bat, and I'm sure I'll add Jscript to my > repertoire eventually; on the mainframe it's REXX, maybe CLIST, JCL, and if I > need a compiled language PL/1 or COBOL. > > .... And I've never heard about ooREXX being available on z/OS. How do > you manage that? Color me interested. > It's ironic: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_REXX> >-----Original Message----- >From: Rony G. Flatscher >Sen t: Monday, January 3, 2022 09:02 > ... tested one semester REXX with a very surprising effect: the BA > students can learn programming much faster in REXX than in any other > programming language (including Python taught by colleagues)! > Contrast with CMS/TSO Pipe lines which is a lexical nightmare inherited from CMS command line conventions and unplanned eexpansion. >The secret lies in employing Object REXX for teaching as it includes >structures/types and the powerful message paradigm in addition to all of the >classic REXX capabilities. In a four hour lecture these BA students (some >total newbies, some already with programming skills) learn REXX and then the >object oriented concepts/features of Object REXX in a single semester (four >months). > ... >IBM and the REXX Language assocation (https://www.rexxla.org) entered into >successful negotiations to hand over the source code of the IBM product Object >REXX and since about 15 years there is an "open object Rexx (ooRexx, oorexx)" >interpreter with source code that has been constantly maintained, developed >further and that gets released by RexxLA. > >There have been also IBM mainframe shops that have started to use ooRexx on >mainframes in the meantime. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
