On 27/10/2017 9:47 PM, Walt Farrell wrote:
Did we somehow arrive at a generalized requirement to be able to access
particular TSO/ISPF features from*other* programming languages that are
not REXX, in a discussion about JITs, because of the functional utility
some z/OS system programmers desire to use other programming languages
besides REXX for scripts in TSO/ISPF?
I think we arrived at this idea because someone suggested it would be nice if
the open-sourced JIT technology that started this thread could be applied to
REXX. Then someone else said we don't really need that, because NetREXX
fulfills the desire to have REXX code that can be JITted. But then someone else
pointed out that NetREXX can't do all the same kinds of things that REXX can,
especially with respect to TSO and ISPF integration.
Therefore, as NetREXX can't substitute for REXX, we still have the desire (if,
perhaps, not the need) for a true classic REXX that can make use of the JIT
technology.
Best post in this thread! We want a JIT for classic REXX so it can run
at speeds similar to compiled languages.
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