At the risk of ignoring his assertion about the length of this thread,
Richard has provided the perfect opening for me to mention Open Object
Rexx. :-)
That's the Open Source evolution of IBM Object REXX, supported by a
team of developers lead by Rick McGuire (an original developer of IBM
OREXX), is freakishly powerful, and currently runs on every major
platform (32/64-bit Windows, Mac, UNIX/Linux, looking into Android) --
except z/VM and Z/OS.
Believe me, it's not for lack of desire, interest, or love of CMS. We
simply don't have access to the necessary resources (hardware and
wetware) in order to effect a proper port of the (predominately C/C++)
code.
If you would be interested in contributing in some way to the effort
to port ooRexx to IBM's Flagship Operating System (and/or z/OS ;-)
please go to the ooRexx website www.oorexx.com and contact the Project
Manager, David Ashley.
You may find you don't need PL/I as much as you think... :-)
-Chip-
On 12/17/10 03:30 Richard Troth said:
This thread has gone on too long. If you want tools for CMS, make a biz
case or make the tools. We should leverage open source. We should take
advantage of things IBM *is* developing, such as the BFS resident
critters. ALL of the programs I have compiled on USS have dropped right
in to OpenVM. (one man's experience; YMMV; actual mileage will probably
be less)
