On 5/07/2013 2:56 PM, Martin Packer wrote:
If that's true in Another World I wonder what it'd take to make it true in
THIS one.
For a start somebody to port OOREXX to z/OS.
That's not going to happen until somebody first ports a recent version
of GNU autotools.
That's not going to happen until at least z/OS 2.10 when the new GNU
extended streams API is available.
We may be waiting a while...
The EBCDIC stuff in OOREXX is mostly complete. I did that years ago. I
bailed when it became clear that fixing the build system
was an intractable problem.
Cheers, Martin
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From: "Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected],
Date: 07/05/2013 12:25 AM
Subject: Re: What programmer's fear (not IBM specific)
Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]>
In
<b870629719727b4ba82a6c06a31c291239e0fad...@hqmailsvr01.voltage.com>,
on 07/04/2013
at 05:54 AM, Phil Smith <[email protected]> said:
In an alternate universe, Rexx had the equivalent of CPAN created by
the community, and we all use it instead...and are much happier.
In an alternate universe the standard REXX for CMS and TSO is OREXX
with full block structuring, ranges, regexen and some control
structures stolen from Icon and Perl.
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