LUA could use some good tutorials or at least some more samples of code. The reference manual is no help for someone trying to learn the language.
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of John Gilmore Sent: Friday, October 24, 2014 10:40 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [ANN] Lua4z: the Lua programming language on z/OS, with batteries Like landing at Thanet, having Lua usable under z/OS UNIX is "a good thing". It may make its way against REXX, or again it may not. The matrix-algebra test case is not, however, an appropriate one for the comparative evaluation of these two implementations of Lua and REXX. It is not indeed a good test case for the evaluation of any scripting language. (The notion that either REXX or Lua is a general-purpose programming language reflects a very specialized point of view. It may be a splendid vehicle for what and all that one is personally interested in, but that is a very different matter.) David Crayford deserves our thanks for making Lua available, and his enthusiasm is entirely understandable. Assuming that this implementation is used, as I hope it will be, we shall know better a year or so hence just how much better it is than the REXX implementation he deplores. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
