Like landing at Thanet, having Lua usable under z/OS UNIX is "a good thing". It may make its way against REXX, or again it may not.
The matrix-algebra test case is not, however, an appropriate one for the comparative evaluation of these two implementations of Lua and REXX. It is not indeed a good test case for the evaluation of any scripting language. (The notion that either REXX or Lua is a general-purpose programming language reflects a very specialized point of view. It may be a splendid vehicle for what and all that one is personally interested in, but that is a very different matter.) David Crayford deserves our thanks for making Lua available, and his enthusiasm is entirely understandable. Assuming that this implementation is used, as I hope it will be, we shall know better a year or so hence just how much better it is than the REXX implementation he deplores. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
