Re: Hmm, 3 ... (Re: Rexx numeric digits and scientific notation question

2024-03-17 Thread Mike Schwab
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Re: Hmm, 3 ... (Re: Rexx numeric digits and scientific notation question

2024-03-17 Thread Rupert Reynolds
> > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי > נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר > > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf > of Rupert Reynolds > Sent: Sunday, March 17, 20

Re: Hmm, 3 ... (Re: Rexx numeric digits and scientific notation question

2024-03-17 Thread Seymour J Metz
Discussion List on behalf of Rupert Reynolds Sent: Sunday, March 17, 2024 2:08 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Hmm, 3 ... (Re: Rexx numeric digits and scientific notation question It's too soon to publish much, especially when I have a full time job doing something else. To b

Re: Hmm, 3 ... (Re: Rexx numeric digits and scientific notation question

2024-03-17 Thread Rupert Reynolds
List on behalf > of Rupert Reynolds > Sent: Saturday, March 16, 2024 9:07 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Hmm, 3 ... (Re: Rexx numeric digits and scientific notation > question > > My experience of modern scripting languages, compared with classic Rexx, is &g

Re: Hmm, 3 ... (Re: Rexx numeric digits and scientific notation question

2024-03-17 Thread Seymour J Metz
arc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent: Saturday, March 16, 2024 7:49 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Hmm, 3 ... (Re: Rexx numeric digits and scientific notation question Hey Rony, From what I understand, you haven't had experience working on z/OS. Let's stick to the topic an

Re: Hmm, 3 ... (Re: Rexx numeric digits and scientific notation question

2024-03-17 Thread Seymour J Metz
Saturday, March 16, 2024 9:07 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Hmm, 3 ... (Re: Rexx numeric digits and scientific notation question My experience of modern scripting languages, compared with classic Rexx, is that they all do something new more easily, but also I can't think of one

Re: Hmm, 3 ... (Re: Rexx numeric digits and scientific notation question

2024-03-17 Thread Seymour J Metz
idges <0587168ababf-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent: Saturday, March 16, 2024 9:26 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Hmm, 3 ... (Re: Rexx numeric digits and scientific notation question Surely that's moon-pie and dreamscapes? There's no serious suggestion that that will

Re: Hmm, 3 ... (Re: Rexx numeric digits and scientific notation question

2024-03-16 Thread Bob Bridges
Surely that's moon-pie and dreamscapes? There's no serious suggestion that that will ever happen, is there? I'm all for it, but don't expect it ever. --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* Sometimes you feel like a nut. After a day of working on a walnut farm, you don't

Re: Hmm, 3 ... (Re: Rexx numeric digits and scientific notation question

2024-03-16 Thread Rupert Reynolds
My experience of modern scripting languages, compared with classic Rexx, is that they all do something new more easily, but also I can't think of one that doesn't have an obvious pitfall (such as, for example, stumbling badly over certain byte values such as NUL in strings). Classic Rexx under TSO

Re: Hmm, 3 ... (Re: Rexx numeric digits and scientific notation question

2024-03-16 Thread David Crayford
Hey Rony, From what I understand, you haven't had experience working on z/OS. Let's stick to the topic and focus on discussing REXX as it functions on z/OS. This means no discussions about ooRexx or Java bridges, as they don't exist and are unlikely to in the future on z/OS. The majority of RE

Hmm, 3 ... (Re: Rexx numeric digits and scientific notation question

2024-03-16 Thread Rony G. Flatscher
On 16.03.2024 01:17, David Crayford wrote: On 16 Mar 2024, at 7:45 am, Jay Maynard<05997213d6c2-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: That depends. Can you use, say, Python to implement all the scripting kinds of things you can use REXX for? Like what, TSO? I don’t find I need to do that