It's true. The company I work for has been on-boarding millennials for
years now to replace the guys that are retiring. I work with some very
smart young guys, some of who write systems level code. None of them use
REXX unless it's used in a product they are working on. We're ripping
and replacing decades old build tools written in REXX with Python
because it's become technical debt and no one can support it.
The typical millenial uses:
* An IDE such as VS Code, IntelliJ, Slickedit with plugins for
mainframe languages and to access the MVS file system.
* They don't use TSO or the ISPF editor so there is no need for REXX
edit macros etc. ISPF is mainly used for SDSF and submitting jobs.
* They work in a interactive shell and use UNIX utilties.
* Everything is stored in Git repositories.
* They code scripts in Python, Node.js or a JVM language.
On 5/1/22 10:06 am, Seymour J Metz wrote:
That's David Crayford, not me. I have no basis to either confirm or contradict.
It's unfortunate if true.
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http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Bob
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Sent: Tuesday, January 4, 2022 9:03 PM
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Subject: Re: ... Re: Top 8 Reasons for using Python instead of REXX for z/OS
Shmuel, I'm interested (and perhaps a little dismayed) at your third point. I've gotten
the impression, from reading ads about job openings, that REXX programmers aren't very
thick on the ground even at IBM where you'd think it'd be pretty easy to find them. But
"shrinking by the day"? Where do you get that? I'm not disagreeing -- I have
no data -- but have you?
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of
David Crayford
Sent: Tuesday, January 4, 2022 19:23
1. IBM are too busy porting contemporary languages like Python, Golang
and Node.js
2. No vendor will port ooRexx because there is no market for it that is
willing to pay support
3. The pool of REXX developers is shrinking by the day and no young
people want to learn it unless they have to
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