Am 25.10.2014 10:02, schrieb David Crayford:
On 24/10/2014 10:40 PM, John Gilmore wrote:
Like landing at Thanet, having Lua usable under z/OS UNIX is "a good
thing". It may make its way against REXX, or again it may not.
It goes without saying that us mainframers tend to stick to what we
know. But I encourage as many people as possible to give Lua a try.
It's a very elegant and powerful programming language which is a
pleasure to use.
we stick with what we know that works.
And we are normally very occupied with all days work,
so we need to be convinced first, before we look into
new languages and features. But anyway, in this case,
I think I will do it.
David Crayford deserves our thanks for making Lua available, and his
enthusiasm is entirely understandable. Assuming that this
implementation is used, as I hope it will be, we shall know better a
year or so hence just how much better it is than the REXX
implementation he deplores.
Thank you for the kind words. Just for the record I do not deplore
REXX. I have used it for almost 25 years and I'm still amazed by it's
elegance and simplicity. My issue is with the
implementation on z/OS, which is suboptimal.
Amen to that.
Thank you David for bringing Lua to z/OS and all the
others for the discussion, which focuses the interest
of many people to David's effort.
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