It's true that ANSI hasn't issued a Rexx standard since 1996 and never ratified the 1998 draft standard for Extended Rexx, but there have been de facto changes in oorexx. Alas, that did not included picking up all of the 1996 enhancements from ANSI..
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of David Crayford [[email protected]] Sent: Monday, April 27, 2020 3:29 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Cobol Define modern? A language is only as modern as its last standard (or version). For example, Python is considered a modern language although it's 30 years old. It's constantly being updated. Python 3.6 supports static type checking! JavaScript is the same. C++20 is being ratified, C2x is being worked on. Java 13 is going to GA on z/OS this year! It's my understanding that COBOL-85 is the current standard in use on z/OS? That's probably indicative of COBOL programmers not requiring new language features as they don't need them to maintain the code bases that they work on. COBOL modernization on z/OS has mostly been back-end optimizer work which is probably a lot more valuable to z/OS IT managers then new language features that won't be used. If companies want to modernize a COBOL application they integrate with Java like CICS and IMS. REXX hasn't changed in almost 30 years. There's been a few updates to TSO REXX such as EXECIO VBS support but that's about all. On 2020-04-25 7:03 AM, Wayne Bickerdike wrote: > One of our guys was talking about modern languages such as C. I said what? > > On Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 7:01 AM Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Well what do you know? The emperor has no clothes. We shot an innocent >> language. >> >> >> -- >> Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz >> http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 >> >> ________________________________________ >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf >> of Paul Gilmartin [[email protected]] >> Sent: Friday, April 24, 2020 3:58 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: Cobol >> >> On Fri, 24 Apr 2020 18:26:49 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: >> >>> There are blurbs for dozens of articles; which one is relevant? I tried >> searxhing for COBOL, but got 0 hits. >> I suspect that was OP's desperate and futile attempt to circumvent >> secureweb, >> as you often do. But, I hope (posting from web interface): >> >> https://secure-web.cisco.com/18wMr2wQiot_mC2NJkJL7buWujrBfP9suLfEWZL4dG8gjB_Zjaj31ZgILnrnn--CfD_RooCYfsFjxvxArhRiN2V2tCmTfs8NayUQCV2ProhQ0KfRlDMDZdg2alKOSjuWwTXeK_Lci9elkht49bjva6Fj7o1W1SIr2REv9PF2NO_PK0BStoe0irBBLJRM9a_tKg3QNHj3DghbIM6_s_J2QBa8K1XWudsYnadGx1bdpDNNTapriOq_jLHjoC742AxmqQVAJ4Szwl0aLrINIHWnzPzP_p0N_kYOi4keUEoOLuWRccU_ZVES-3NC05VlKLovPbiDfx9BUbsi3Kn4nGo1sHGipsJJfPFN4ClnEGuuMjWs6LU9f2293Fm0jTt3GhayZHNNDR8prcppx857Qz_vQpR6HOUIxm-p1DAvFYE8aFU_B3Da9y60snIIWQxr9qfkI67XWmwAvbGdgFfA9cP_uBHV85oupnnYfOSco5uQPIVE/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wired.com%2Fstory%2Fcant-file-unemployment-dont-blame-cobol%2F >> >> ________________________________________ >> From: scott Ford >> Sent: Friday, April 24, 2020 2:08 PM >> >> See this url ... >> >> >> http://secure-web.cisco.com/1DYCAeckpzqV94PQWw8dHuuJalhW0eVroAe-0-S4pJl_FnqGfZxS4EcWK7cCAl1oA09gJJKNMcHC1Be4KK3D-KcMIEVRVBeNOw5sf7565Z6e9CTYIm43a-oit3GGWnum7LgBTpYCxV6CAhgR9TuXipYHaUjUUPtd7BICMs1zfFGQQ8NhAeXHdXvHPrGdxzaQmTRfNi8vGWGKk4fg_G75au8H3Ja9AbLwRb2m8-upI9jYdmy1ZYdzYlRF2kzlwN155wAFEug02LCkZ5Bpk3IvSuxwzwd1UUyk_5NUmIqwMFmcDxZ8SpSnwFspncJTV1bLmByZAIVczBfj-JctXDA5Ta99YBqxx1tBpdl0qN5MWPGsz1CGAQ_Is1sLoRxy9Dl_fCLgMhLDvO5L8-EsVff2IiswF1xKvwUDiAEPcV0mOxz5c915mExQuVbCTDL0KTJQEtCF5dYTiss8HJIK_dzSG8g/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wired.com. >> Can't File for Unemployment - Don�t Blame Cobol >> >> -- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
