Re: [IBMiOSS] OPS Version Information

If you have to compile it yourself, that already puts it below Python

Those of us who come from the open source community view such statements as
heresy :)
You used to have to compile Python yourself!
That someone else did it for you and put it in a package is like having an
automatic transmission vs. a stick shift (the latter sometimes called a
"milennial anti-theft device" :)

would find Python more intuitive than Rexx anyway.

Well, yes, but I thunk you wuz all IBM nerdz :)


On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 6:45 PM, John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 7:32 PM, Jack Woehr
<jwoehr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

There are open source rexxes that should be compilable under PASE if you
have the gcc toolchain.

If you have to compile it yourself, that already puts it below Python,
using Aaron's criteria for selection of PASE scripting languages. It
may or may not also then fall below Ruby, PHP, and Node.js (all of
which have already been compiled for you, but you have to jump through
other hoops to get them installed).

If Rexx really "fits your brain" much better than other languages, it
may be worth the extra hassle of getting it installed. But I'll bet
most people who know neither language, but do know SOME programming
language, would find Python more intuitive than Rexx anyway.

John Y.
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