And there, I guess, is the answer to my question; no, I can safely stick with REXX for now, and leave Python alone, since Python is limited to OMVS. Maybe someday if I become a serious Unix jock.
(The assertion that TSO isn't "modern" doesn't concern me.) I still meant what I said about being interested in tacking on a next language. I hear a lot about Lua these days.... --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* Thousands of years ago, Egyptians worshiped cats. Cats have never forgotten this. */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of David Crayford Sent: Friday, March 15, 2024 20:17 Like what, TSO? I don’t find I need to do that any more as I work in a UNIX shell. Let me flip that around. Can I use REXX to implement the kind of scripting that I do in Python? For example, process a YAML configuration file. We need to do that stuff on z/OS now. CICS resource definitions can be defined as YAML documents, configuration as code and all that stuff. DevOps, Git repos. REXX is a pretty poor language for anything modern. > --- On 16 Mar 2024, at 7:45 am, Jay Maynard > <000005997213d6c2-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > Can you use, say, Python to implement all the scripting kinds of things you > can use REXX for? -----Original Message----- From: robhbrid...@gmail.com <robhbrid...@gmail.com> Sent: Friday, March 15, 2024 19:58 Python is better, you say? But can I use it in the TSO environment? If it's only for Unix, I may pass for now. I still work for multiple clients and it seems to me I could usefully focus on languages that the clients are likely to use themselves. That means TSO REXX, VBA and VBS, SQL, assembler, probably PowerShell, maybe PL/1... What else? Seriously I'm open to the next one I should tackle. I keep hearing about Python, Lua, Ruby, C++ and others, but in what environment(s) would I use them? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
