On Sun, 14 Jan 2018 09:15:04 -0600, John McKown wrote:

>On Sat, Jan 13, 2018 at 10:29 PM, Jack J. Woehr wrote:
>
>> It's called Go. https://golang.org/
>
>​I've looked at "Go" a bit. It is nice. You got a z/OS port in your back
>pocket? I wonder how likely such a port is, given that the language
>definition _requires_ that all source code be in UTF-8 (not EBCDIC).​
>
Yaaay!  Someone grew a pair!  If only POSIX had done likewise.

But z/OS supports UTF-8; files can be tagged as CCSID 1208 and ISPF
edits them transparently (subject to display capability of terminal.)

-- gil

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