Re: Developers say Google's Go is 'most sought after' programming language of 2020

2020-05-10 Thread Timothy Sipples
Shmuel Metz wrote: >Now if they could just bring z/OS support for Kotlin, Lua, >Perl, Raku, Ruby and Rust up to date ... >Yes, bringing the port up to date includes first porting it ;-) Let's take these in order 1. As far as I know, as long as you use the Kotlin compiler to target a Java Run

Re: Developers say Google's Go is 'most sought after' programming language of 2020

2020-05-10 Thread scott Ford
Peter my vote also... On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 11:39 PM Farley, Peter x23353 < peter.far...@broadridge.com> wrote: > For relatively recent fare, I agree 100% - "Person of Interest" leads the > pack. My favorite oldie -- "Let's play Global Thermonuclear War . . . " > (War Games), right after Dr. S

Re: Developers say Google's Go is 'most sought after' programming language of 2020

2020-05-10 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
For relatively recent fare, I agree 100% - "Person of Interest" leads the pack. My favorite oldie -- "Let's play Global Thermonuclear War . . . " (War Games), right after Dr. Strangelove of course, simply because it was so twisted. Mutual Assured Destruction indeed. Is SkyNet far away? Peter

Re: IBM Developerworks is gone!

2020-05-10 Thread zMan
Without disagreeing about the stupidity of making stuff just vanish (hint: if they wanted to move it, they didn't need to delete the old content, and anyone vaguely conscious would have provided links to the new locations,or AT LEAST a static page saying "Stuff moved, go here"), anything that gets

Re: Developers say Google's Go is 'most sought after' programming language of 2020

2020-05-10 Thread Bob Bridges
I've always loved "Colossus: The Forbin Project". Not many people have seen it, as far as I can tell. The only problem I have with that movie - well, the main problem - is that no programmer in the world would make such a system and then throw away the Stop button. No engineer would do that w

Re: IBM Developerworks is gone!

2020-05-10 Thread Lionel B Dyck
There is but it requires access to a zLinux LPAR to do the build from what I read when I found it. Lionel B. Dyck < Website: https://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you are, reputation merely what others think you are." - John Wooden

Re: IBM Developerworks is gone!

2020-05-10 Thread scott Ford
Alan, Isn’t there also a z/OS repo on Github ? Scott On Fri, May 8, 2020 at 4:05 PM Alan Young wrote: > It seems like IBM has decided on using github for the latest iteration. > > https://github.com/IBM > > https://github.com/cicsdev > > https://cicsdev.github.io/ > > -Original Message---

Re: Developers say Google's Go is 'most sought after' programming language of 2020

2020-05-10 Thread scott Ford
Like the 1970s flick , ‘Colossus , The Forbin Project’, Colossus and American computer and Guardian a Russian computer take over saying ‘ Colossus and Guardian we are one’, or better yet My favorite show, ‘Person of Interest’. Scott On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 11:18 AM Thomas Kern < 0041d91

Re: Developers say Google's Go is 'most sought after' programming language of 2020

2020-05-10 Thread Thomas Kern
My view is: "You can write Fortran in any language, badly." /Tom Kern On 05/10/2020 10:13, Seymour J Metz wrote: "You can write Fortran in any language." -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 -- For IBM-

Re: Developers say Google's Go is 'most sought after' programming language of 2020

2020-05-10 Thread Seymour J Metz
"You can write Fortran in any language." -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Jack J. Woehr [j...@well.com] Sent: Sunday, May 10, 2020 12:45 AM To: IBM-MAIN@L

Re: Developers say Google's Go is 'most sought after' programming language of 2020

2020-05-10 Thread Seymour J Metz
I like PL/I, but even had it taken over the marketplace form Algol 60, COBOL and Fortran, there would still have been a need for domain specific languages. OTOH, maybe they would have had cleaner syntax. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 _

Re: Developers say Google's Go is 'most sought after' programming language of 2020

2020-05-10 Thread Seymour J Metz
ObDatamation Then he turned with a snarl, And he said with a taunt, "It's just what I asked for, But not what I want!" -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA

Re: Developers say Google's Go is 'most sought after' programming language of 2020

2020-05-10 Thread Seymour J Metz
"I'm sorry Richard, I can't do that." -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of PINION, RICHARD W. [rpin...@firsthorizon.com] Sent: Sunday, May 10, 2020 3:28 AM To

Re: Developers say Google's Go is 'most sought after' programming language of 2020

2020-05-10 Thread David Crayford
On 2020-05-10 3:36 PM, Tom Brennan wrote: Uh oh... He also has https://whydoesitsuck.com/why-does-javascript-suck/ Yep, JavaScript sucks! But it doesn't suck as much as PHP and since ES6 much of that nastiness has been fixed. And there's also TypeScript which is what we use. and even http

Re: Developers say Google's Go is 'most sought after' programming language of 2020

2020-05-10 Thread Tom Brennan
Uh oh... He also has https://whydoesitsuck.com/why-does-javascript-suck/ and even https://whydoesitsuck.com/why-does-this-blog-suck/ I read his PHP page to the point where he says the PHP online doc sucks. I have to disagree - I think it's one of the best methods I've ever seen of handling pr

Re: Developers say Google's Go is 'most sought after' programming language of 2020

2020-05-10 Thread Wayne Bickerdike
Was excited in 1981 when "The Last One" was announced. It meant we wouldn't ever need another programming language. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_One_(software) On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 5:28 PM PINION, RICHARD W. wrote: > What the world really needs is a HAL9000. > > -Original Messa

Re: Developers say Google's Go is 'most sought after' programming language of 2020

2020-05-10 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
What the world really needs is a HAL9000. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Tom Brennan Sent: Sunday, May 10, 2020 3:25 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Developers say Google's Go is 'most sought after' programming language of 2020 [Externa

Re: Developers say Google's Go is 'most sought after' programming language of 2020

2020-05-10 Thread Tom Brennan
Thanks, now my head is going to explode :) Maybe one day it'll be like Star Trek where we get to tell the computer to create the program for us, like a designer would describe general specs to a programmer today, then go through an evaluation and corrections without ever seeing any actual code

Next GSE UK Security Meeting - 11th June 2020 via Webex

2020-05-10 Thread Mark Wilson
Greetings, We are pleased to confirm that the next meeting of the GSE UK Security Working Group, will take place on Thursday 11th June 2020 (09:00 – 17:15 BST) via Webex. The agenda and registration is available here > https://www.gse.org.uk/events/gse-uk-security-working-group-meeting/ -