Lua for z/CPUs is very fast and very low cpu usage. http://lua4z.com/ Kind of a mini pascal.
On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 12:20 PM, Frank Swarbrick <[email protected]> wrote: > I installed the beta and agree that in its current state it is not very > useful, but I am encouraged by the effort and hopeful that we'll see some > useful features "soon". > > > Is it naive to hope that Swift some could "replace" COBOL on z/OS? I'm not > clear on IBM's ideas of what Swift would be used for on z/OS. > > ________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of > David Crayford <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, April 21, 2017 7:22 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: LLVM ( wasRe: Swift on z/OS (was Data/hiperspaces (was: ... 4G bar?)) > > IBM have ported LLVM/clang to z/OS. The beta of swift gives the game away > > DOC:/u/doc: >swiftc --version > Swift version 3.0-dev (LLVM , Clang , Swift ) > Target: s390x-ibm-zos > > Interestingly they have a libbsd.a static library which appears to be a > shim of the the BSD C/C++ runtime library. > > Right now compiling Swift programs is agonizingly slow! And it's missing > the foundation/core library which makes it quite useless to do anything > meaningful. > > > On 14/04/2017 7:38 AM, Frank Swarbrick wrote: >> Has anyone else seen this? >> https://developer.ibm.com/swift/2016/12/05/try-swift-on-zos/. I'm assuming >> this is the reason for the porting of clang/LLVM to z/OS. Don't know what >> it means for any other clang/LLVM supported languages... > [https://developer.ibm.com/swift/wp-content/uploads/sites/69/2016/12/Swift-on-z-300x169.jpg]<https://developer.ibm.com/swift/2016/12/05/try-swift-on-zos/> > > Try Swift on z/OS - > Swift@IBM<https://developer.ibm.com/swift/2016/12/05/try-swift-on-zos/> > developer.ibm.com > A year ago, Apple made Swift open source. On the same day, December 3rd 2015, > IBM introduced the IBM Swift Sandbox. With that step, IBM started the journey > of ... > > >> >> [https://developer.ibm.com/swift/wp-content/uploads/sites/69/2016/12/Swift-on-z-300x169.jpg]<https://developer.ibm.com/swift/2016/12/05/try-swift-on-zos/> >> >> Try Swift on z/OS - >> Swift@IBM<https://developer.ibm.com/swift/2016/12/05/try-swift-on-zos/> > [https://developer.ibm.com/swift/wp-content/uploads/sites/69/2016/12/Swift-on-z-300x169.jpg]<https://developer.ibm.com/swift/2016/12/05/try-swift-on-zos/> > > Try Swift on z/OS - > Swift@IBM<https://developer.ibm.com/swift/2016/12/05/try-swift-on-zos/> > developer.ibm.com > A year ago, Apple made Swift open source. On the same day, December 3rd 2015, > IBM introduced the IBM Swift Sandbox. With that step, IBM started the journey > of ... > > >> developer.ibm.com >> A year ago, Apple made Swift open source. On the same day, December 3rd >> 2015, IBM introduced the IBM Swift Sandbox. With that step, IBM started the >> journey of ... >> >> >> >> >> ________________________________ >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of >> David Crayford <[email protected]> >> Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2017 8:29 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: Data/hiperspaces (was: ... 4G bar?) >> >> On 31/03/2017 3:27 AM, John McKown wrote: >>>> So, any HLL has only indirect access to dataspaces and hiperspaces. >>>> >>>>> What's the definition of a "HLL"? >>>> Anything that isn't assembler. >>>> >>>> Some people think C is a LLL, but that's just wishful thinking. >>>> >>> C is ..., um, That is, it's ... . Got it: a good language for writing buggy >>> code! Most of the deficiencies of assembler with none of the goodness. >>> >> What's the goodness of assembler? I would rather have an optimizer. >> >> I envy the language choices of other platforms (including z/Linux). >> We're pretty limited on z/OS. It's either the usual suspects or JVM >> languages. I'm almost certain that IBM have a z/OS port of >> clang/LLVM because I've seen evidence in their libuv port on github. >> Using the LLVM backend it's possible to port a plethora of languages to >> z/OS including rust, which is a superb language. >> >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
