On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 6:44 PM, David Crayford <[email protected]> wrote:
> Looks like Rockets R port is using Enhanced ASCII > http://forum.rocketsoftware.com/t/r-the-language-for-statist > ical-computing-is-now-on-z-os/297. > I have a friend, ex co-worker, who now works for Rocket. Sounds like a great place to work. Other than the "good will", I don't know why they are doing these ports, but I'm very grateful for it. I really like R, the little I know of it. If they're listening, a full port of GNU awk would be fantastic (especially with the networking stuff). Also the Google "Go" language (may be even more difficult since it specifically says that it only supports UNICODE) > > > On 10/08/2016 11:32 PM, Kirk Wolf wrote: > >> Gil, >> >> You think that Enhanced ASCII support in z/OS is crap? I've never heard >> that before :-) >> >> Kirk Wolf >> Dovetailed Technologies >> http://dovetail.com >> >> On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 10:26 AM, Paul Gilmartin < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Wed, 10 Aug 2016 08:16:50 -0500, Jerry Callen <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>> [Prompted by mentions of git on another thread] >>>> >>>> Rocket is in the process of porting git to z/OS (on USS, of course). As >>>> >>> others have noted, it's challenging, given the ASCII/EBCDIC issues. ... >>> >>>> http://forum.rocketsoftware.com/c/rocket-z-os-open-source-la >>>> nguages-tools >>>> https://github.com/zorts/pause_release >>>> >>>> What would be the obstacles to building it in Enhanced ASCII mode? I >>> know >>> there are many; I've never succeed with anything significantly larger >>> than >>> "Hello, World" in Enhanced ASCII. >>> >>> -- gil >>> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >>> send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN >>> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Klein bottle for rent -- inquire within. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
