On 22/06/2021 8:55 pm, Seymour J Metz wrote:
What distinguishes REXX is not syntactic sugar but the plumbing that enables close coupling of scripts with applications. Lua is missing that.
Maybe. But I can't think of an environment that REXX runs in that Lua can't. I could port Python to run in TSO if I had the time but it's a heavy lift. IBM have ported golang now which is compiled. We've had a look at it and it's interesting.
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