Re: Great quote on http://slashdot.org (changes frequently)

2013-06-30 Thread David Crayford
/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/MartinPacker From: David Crayford dcrayf...@gmail.com To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu, Date: 06/29/2013 03:32 AM Subject:Re: Great quote on http://slashdot.org (changes frequently) Sent by:IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN

Re: Great quote on http://slashdot.org (changes frequently)

2013-06-30 Thread Scott Ford
-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu, Date: 06/29/2013 01:22 PM Subject:Re: Great quote on http://slashdot.org (changes frequently) Sent by:IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu On 29/06/2013 6:39 PM, Martin Packer wrote: Would a Lua port use System XML? I suspect

Re: Great quote on http://slashdot.org (changes frequently)

2013-06-30 Thread Steve Comstock
://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/MartinPacker From: David Crayford dcrayf...@gmail.com To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu, Date: 06/29/2013 01:22 PM Subject:Re: Great quote on http://slashdot.org (changes frequently) Sent by:IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN

Re: Great quote on http://slashdot.org (changes frequently)

2013-06-30 Thread Scott Ford
PM Subject:Re: Great quote on http://slashdot.org (changes frequently) Sent by:IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu On 29/06/2013 6:39 PM, Martin Packer wrote: Would a Lua port use System XML? I suspect not - which is what it might take to make XML

Re: Great quote on http://slashdot.org (changes frequently)

2013-06-30 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In ofe878f739.f906bf47-on80257b99.004c84e9-80257b99.004e8...@uk.ibm.com, on 06/29/2013 at 03:17 PM, Martin Packer martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com said: Would dearly love to see PHP, Be careful what you ask for - you might get it. There are cleaner languages. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz,

Re: Great quote on http://slashdot.org (changes frequently)

2013-06-30 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 1427790225797888.wa.ibmmaintpg.com...@listserv.ua.edu, on 06/28/2013 at 09:00 PM, Shane Ginnane ibm-m...@tpg.com.au said: Lua - yet another language to maybe have a look at. All I know about it is that wiki is using it. Anybody have a link? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and

Re: Great quote on http://slashdot.org (changes frequently)

2013-06-29 Thread Martin Packer
email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/MartinPacker From: David Crayford dcrayf...@gmail.com To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu, Date: 06/29/2013 03:32 AM Subject:Re: Great quote on http

Re: Great quote on http://slashdot.org (changes frequently)

2013-06-29 Thread David Crayford
dcrayf...@gmail.com To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu, Date: 06/29/2013 05:05 AM Subject:Re: Great quote on http://slashdot.org (changes frequently) Sent by:IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu On 29/06/2013 11:28 AM, Wayne Bickerdike wrote: Oh noes, not another

Re: Great quote on http://slashdot.org (changes frequently)

2013-06-29 Thread Shane Ginnane
Indeed. I basically gave up on REXX, particularly for text processing, ages ago. Even for my RMF reports it's easier to ftp (via hipersockets) down to zLinux and use awk or perl to reformat them as I want, then ftp them back. Cheap MIPS/MSUs too. Must admit I do little scripting in z/OS these

Re: Great quote on http://slashdot.org (changes frequently)

2013-06-29 Thread zMan
: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/MartinPacker From: David Crayford dcrayf...@gmail.com To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu, Date: 06/29/2013 01:22 PM Subject:Re: Great quote on http://slashdot.org (changes frequently) Sent by:IBM

Re: Great quote on http://slashdot.org (changes frequently)

2013-06-28 Thread David Crayford
On 28/06/2013 9:52 PM, John McKown wrote: Never put off till run-time what you can do at compile-time. -- D. Gries Careful! There are quite a few assembler programmers frequent this list! However, it does seem that the hipsters are writing code in dynamically typed languages these days.

Re: Great quote on http://slashdot.org (changes frequently)

2013-06-28 Thread John McKown
I'm becoming quite conversant with JavaScript in Firefox, Chrome, and I.E. . Especially to implement some AJAX scripts which do reports on events reported via the z/OS HTTP server into z/OS UNIX syslogd log files. I've written a web based RACF User Administration system using AJAX for the security

Re: Great quote on http://slashdot.org (changes frequently)

2013-06-28 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 51cd9a6b.7030...@gmail.com, on 06/28/2013 at 10:15 PM, David Crayford dcrayf...@gmail.com said: On 28/06/2013 9:52 PM, John McKown wrote: Never put off till run-time what you can do at compile-time. -- D. Gries Never bind prematurely -- S. Metz Careful! There are quite a few assembler

Re: Great quote on http://slashdot.org (changes frequently)

2013-06-28 Thread David Crayford
I've been using node.js for a while now and seriously love it. Writing web apps has never been easier. Web sockets are cool and a snack with socket.io and express. I looked at porting V8 to z/OS but its a lot of work. Lua has an almost identical feature set to JavaScript and was dirt easy to

Re: Great quote on http://slashdot.org (changes frequently)

2013-06-28 Thread John McKown
I am drooling over the thought you might be able to share that lua stuff. Learning it has now gone to the top of the list. On Jun 28, 2013 6:19 PM, David Crayford dcrayf...@gmail.com wrote: I've been using node.js for a while now and seriously love it. Writing web apps has never been easier.

Re: Great quote on http://slashdot.org (changes frequently)

2013-06-28 Thread Shane Ginnane
On Sat, 29 Jun 2013 07:19:12 +0800, David Crayford wrote: ...I've come to the conclusion that REXX is a dog. And seriously underpowered for modern use cases ... Poor old EXECIO has never looked more pathetic. And I thought Dave was quicker on the up-take than that ;-) But his

Re: Great quote on http://slashdot.org (changes frequently)

2013-06-28 Thread David Crayford
On 29/06/2013, at 10:00 AM, Shane Ginnane ibm-m...@tpg.com.au wrote: On Sat, 29 Jun 2013 07:19:12 +0800, David Crayford wrote: ...I've come to the conclusion that REXX is a dog. And seriously underpowered for modern use cases ... Poor old EXECIO has never looked more pathetic. And I

Re: Great quote on http://slashdot.org (changes frequently)

2013-06-28 Thread Wayne Bickerdike
Oh noes, not another language! http://hammerprinciple.com/therighttool/items/forth/lua Go Forth and multiply comes to mind. On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 12:02 PM, David Crayford dcrayf...@gmail.com wrote: On 29/06/2013, at 10:00 AM, Shane Ginnane ibm-m...@tpg.com.au wrote: On Sat, 29 Jun 2013