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 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of David Crayford <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2021 9:57 AM To: [email protected] 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
