ILC doesn't seem to be a thing in the open source community. It's not an easy thing to achieve.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Rick Troth [tro...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 2, 2023 9:10 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Mainframe REXX (Re: Badmouthing Rexx and ooRexx - again (Re: zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers On 3/2/23 05:49, David Crayford wrote: > I think 99% of the folks on this forum want a language that can run in > a TSO/ISPF environment hosted in PDS data sets. Lua can do that and > it's orders of magnitudes faster then REXX with the advantage of > package management. The next gen guys don't use TSO/ISPF and they're > going to use Python and couldn't give a hoot about NetRexx. Lua is great. (Got a link to the MVS version of it?) But language-centric ecosystems not so much. (everything from PIP to Maven) We've lost the concept of inter-language calls. With increasing numbers of new and amazing languages, we seem to be LESS able to choose and use the right language for the function. -- R; <>< ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
