Oh noes, not another language!
http://hammerprinciple.com/therighttool/items/forth/lua Go Forth and multiply comes to mind. On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 12:02 PM, David Crayford <[email protected]> wrote: > On 29/06/2013, at 10:00 AM, Shane Ginnane <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Sat, 29 Jun 2013 07:19:12 +0800, David Crayford wrote: >> >>> ...I've come to the conclusion that REXX is a dog. And seriously >>> underpowered for modern use cases >>> ... Poor old EXECIO has never looked more pathetic. >> >> And I thought Dave was quicker on the up-take than that .... ;-) >> But his recommendation(s) need serious consideration. >> >> Lua - yet another "language" to maybe have a look at. I seem to have about >> half a dozen already "half-looked" at. > > What you have to consider is what languages are available on z/OS. The > cupboard is pretty bare other than JVM languages which don't run in the > native environment. Most people consider mainframe modernisation to be > replacing green screens with GUI front ends. That's all well and good but > what I really yearn for are the tools that I'm used to on other platforms. I > chose Lua because its easy to port and I was already using it to create cross > platform mobile apps with the corona SDK. The z/OS ports of python and perl > are stale. Ruby and JavaScript are difficult to port to EBCDIC. > > It's true that there are far too many languages to choose from. All of them > have strengths and weaknesses. Although Lua is well known as a video game > language and notorious for the flame/stuxnet viruses it runs brilliantly on > z/OS. Its so fast my colleagues thought I was tricking them and running > compiled code. > > Quite a popular language > https://sites.google.com/site/marbux/home/where-lua-is-used > >> >> Shane ... >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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 -- Wayne V. Bickerdike ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
