I think you've hit it: Rather than "widely available" I should have said "bundled with the OS". Learning new languages is something I do just for fun, but if it's not bundled with the OS then chances are pretty small that my clients are going to use it. In TSO that means REXX, CLIST, SQL and JCL; in Windows it's VBA and VBS and maybe JScript. (Remember I'm talking only about interpreters here.) Are there others? I hear a lot about Java, for example, and have long been curious, but if I write something for Java will it run - without special installation - on a client's machine?
(I dunno why you say "unlike VBScript"; isn't it available on every Windows machine?) --- Bob Bridges, [email protected], cell 336 382-7313 /* In most states you can get a driver's license when you're 16 years old, which made a lot of sense to me when I was 16 years old but now seems insane. -Dave Barry */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Seymour J Metz Sent: Monday, March 30, 2020 14:32 REXX is widely available in the sense that implementations are available for just about everything, unlike VBSCRIPT. Likewise Perl. As for installation, that comes with the territory. Unless it's bundled with the OS, you need to install it. Maybe it's a hassle in windows, but in ArcaOS and openSUSE installing a package from the repository is trivial. As long as it's properly packagerd for SMP, it's easy in z/OS as well. I doubt that it's any harder with VMSESS, or whater z/VM uses these days. ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Bob Bridges [[email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 30, 2020 12:06 PM ...I'll switch in a minute, though, if there ever appears a widely available interpreter for an object-oriented language. Here I sit back, confidently expecting a raft of nominations, but please note I said "interpreter" and "widely available". I'd define VBScript as "widely available" on the PC, not because everyone uses it but because it'll run on any Windows machine - no special installation required. Is there any OO language like that in z/OS? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
