Swift has the same UTF-8 source code requirement, and IBM already has a beta release of Swift for z/OS. The z/OS port allows for EBCDIC source code, which it automatically converts to UTF-8 internally, and they also allow UTF-8 source code directly. I've been working with the former, and haven't tried the latter yet. ________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of John McKown <john.archie.mck...@gmail.com> Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2018 8:15 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Interesting? Kotlin (JVM based language) interactive compile & run
On Sat, Jan 13, 2018 at 10:29 PM, Jack J. Woehr <j...@well.com> wrote: > On 1/13/2018 4:04 PM, John McKown wrote: > >> Well, given the responses to my thread on "z/OS and C", I'd say that >> "something better" is desired. >> > > 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). > > > -- > Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of > www.well.com/~jax<http://www.well.com/~jax> # thinking, a way of skeptically > interrogating the > universe > www.softwoehr.com<http://www.softwoehr.com> # with a fine understanding of > human fallibility. - > Carl Sagan > > -- I have a theory that it's impossible to prove anything, but I can't prove it. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
