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Am 25.10.2014 10:02, schrieb D.C.:
> On 24/10/2014 10:40 PM, J.G. 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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