"The mainframe needs to keep pace with the industry." I certainly hope that whatever the industry is doing that gets adapted to the mainframe does so much more cleanly than, say, Python... The absolute abortion that is Python's idea of replacing JCL makes COBOL look like APL.
On Thu, Mar 2, 2023 at 6:37 AM David Crayford <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2/3/23 19:48, René Jansen wrote: > >> I think 99% of the folks on this forum want a language that can run in > a TSO/ISPF environment hosted in PDS data sets. Lua can do that and it's > orders of magnitudes faster then REXX with the advantage of package > management. The next gen guys don't use TSO/ISPF and they're going to use > Python and couldn't give a hoot about NetRexx. > > NetRexx can and does, using the IBM jzos classes, which are delivered > with its JVM’s. > > Hmm, I don't think so. NetRexx programs can not reside in PDS data sets. > I don't get the point of NetRexx. > > > > They can do a lot more with conventional MVS than LUA, I am sure. > > Don't agree. Lua4z has a heap of integrations including TSO/ISPF without > VDEFINE. And you can write packages and applications using PDS data > sets. REXX is impoverished in this respect and you can't share state or > data structures between modules. > > /https://lua4z.github.io/Lua4z//// > > > Not that anyone would do that, of course, being so much easier with ISPF > and Rexx and their shared variable pool. I have built dialogs in COBOL and > PL/1 but nothing beats Rexx for that, having not to VDEFINE everything > first. > > That's subjective. I find it much easier to write code in Lua. A > programming language that supports OO, meta-programming, functional > programming and co-routines with just 20 reserved words is a thing of > absolute beauty and a testament to the designers. REXX is a niche > language that's only used to any great extend on mainframes and it's > popularity is constantly eroding. The mainframe needs to keep pace with > the industry. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Jay Maynard ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
