It's not a question of what environment it can run in; it's  a question of what 
facilities it supports in those environments.


--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3


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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of 
David Crayford <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2021 9:57 AM
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Subject: Re: Coding for the future

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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