On 24/10/2017 8:25 PM, John McKown wrote:
NetRexx was born at IBM Hursley in 1995 at the hands of REXX's father, Mike
Cowlishaw. It is the world's first alternative language for JVMs. The REXX
Language Association's members and contributors actively maintain NetRexx.
The latest release as I write this is Version 3.05 (April 27, 2017), and
the Version 3.06 beta was released on April 28, 2017. Mike is still
actively involved in the NetRexx community.
I have NetREXX installed. But, as Mr. Crayford indicated, it is not a
replacement for TSO REXX in a TSO environment. I have, on occasion, used it
to write a "batch" program or a UNIX command line program. I can't do this
much here because we are MSU constrained and don't have an zIIP (or zAAP)
on our z9BC. So I get "dinged" if I show up on my boss's MSU radar
Right! But if you had a JIT compiled classic REXX it would save you
money! But that won't happen. For starters it would need to be a
rewrite in C++ with a VM. It's no secret I'm a Lua fan and it interested
me that an IBM JIT developer has an experimental project that JIT
enables Lua 5.3 using OMR https://github.com/Leonardo2718/lua-vermelha.
I could use that to "supercharge" Lua on z/OS. But there just doesn't
seem to be much appetite for new languages on z/OS. Old dogs new tricks
I suppose.
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