360 assembler? Why? The XF assembler is so much nicer, unless you're doing, e.g., an OS/360 SysGen.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Jack J. Woehr [[email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 30, 2020 8:43 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: strange python announcement Ruby useful in its niches. So is 360 Assembler to this day, and RPG, and REXX ... They're just not growing mindshare. Python is still growing mindshare, and it's more generally useful than Ruby, which since 2006 has been focused on web services. Legacy systems programmers learning Python in IBM *nix environments (IBM i Pase & z/OS USS) is, in the immortal words of Joe Biden, a BFD :) On 3/30/20 6:15 AM, David Crayford wrote: > On 2020-03-30 12:24 PM, Jack J. Woehr wrote: >> On 3/29/20 9:47 PM, Seymour J Metz wrote: >>> Well, at the moment Ruby looks better than Python, >> >> >> Ruby is close to dead these days, whereas Python is growing by leaps >> and bounds. >> > That's a big call! Ruby on Rails is used by Github (and many others)! > -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of http://secure-web.cisco.com/1wqnxaDN6ML2pXKjZnuj7nXMUd7Rw36fhz9RhP44v7UxIxBHnJWgb3QoOLqs16ctHql41CGhqlZ-LQKtaCufk3Jt8v08OTZkqxjURTFn_kQeCmRBzYlBEHtF39SbyUsABLR7LzIZGTmoz_5T8BIi9PmMcaY-AuY0px_8b7J5lxaHjsu92NPFUUipCgy116nYs-7UuC3oIcXYC2EMJeBGP-j2KgL7IDSqkfE9y8fGaRKZ8r5qNnl76TuS-XKMqZ_W-4piuEI_ch8E1qyZH9d3saAZYkMWxDJefOyR1zhBH40J7JaLfypd7Qigvw4E4JdNCWApnRCojCfJ0NJtUk_AdxQKIcJbbddV2Yi7gjpAp3wLr1RGhcHEdFaYS_cNHM3Bp1Y-g9uj6Snws4DU1XemYf0PXe2snCNIYvwddIHC6s8Ef0naH8fSnMCR8y5fS0Wbw/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.well.com%2F%7Ejax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the universe http://secure-web.cisco.com/1phKhZ8tJbm2DcRye5W2QFjJciZKsZmK_kPbUixjVkmP_f2wlg5ZdaBZcrO4GSplufKu75hLa1Q3IpZ9SQWOWCq5XmiFpekj6FGV1vg1odRAUmFWpd0LAwukX3DgDzCL9GObKPqrPqgmZTu4mYHEvH-_X870528yxY4mv_IvSqEacfonh53Z_eA7UfHwLTyKTMBQEkrBRK8enUfxg7HwMbJunqf8NBS3d_B68GAmr0Sctf_n-oUs3ZYNis4Svt9HGXLMjJWV6bvY697yK9psghrdyKtwm7XUlowdqvnrUG7IsCMDoXGvG1p6JK_T9SDSr8NltwBxf96wa4YzA6fjKg6CLVuwlyuizVEvucS8Ggn7ipwdpx_2svPpdl2RGbmVDXkhkm3ZmfRrxVQ0Lfh3tyMuX6asouAjQkfqaVmWkZ14kmzqW72VFPQaHfYbc2rtt/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.softwoehr.com # with a fine understanding of human fallibility. - Carl Sagan ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
