#rexx — Public Fediverse posts
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Beltanefestival and still in search of software developer work.I speak the old tongues of #C, #Forth, #REXX, and #Shell, along with other foreign tongues of #Erlang, #NodeJS, #Go, #Java, #C# and more. I make utterances in #English and #French.
I command in several BSD and Linux dialects. Even wrote successful anti-spam filtering software #BarricadeMX and several #milters.
And can brag about winning the @IOCCC (but don't in polite company).
I seek employment for a worthy cause with remuneration.
Please someone reach out, if only to stop me pestering you fine folks every so often with this plea.
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Coming up on
Beltanefestival and still in search of software developer work.I speak the old tongues of #C, #Forth, #REXX, and #Shell, along with other foreign tongues of #Erlang, #NodeJS, #Go, #Java, #C# and more. I make utterances in #English and #French.
I command in several BSD and Linux dialects. Even wrote successful anti-spam filtering software #BarricadeMX and several #milters.
And can brag about winning the @IOCCC (but don't in polite company).
I seek employment for a worthy cause with remuneration.
Please someone reach out, if only to stop me pestering you fine folks every so often with this plea.
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Coming up on
Beltanefestival and still in search of software developer work.I speak the old tongues of #C, #Forth, #REXX, and #Shell, along with other foreign tongues of #Erlang, #NodeJS, #Go, #Java, #C# and more. I make utterances in #English and #French.
I command in several BSD and Linux dialects. Even wrote successful anti-spam filtering software #BarricadeMX and several #milters.
And can brag about winning the @IOCCC (but don't in polite company).
I seek employment for a worthy cause with remuneration.
Please someone reach out, if only to stop me pestering you fine folks every so often with this plea.
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Coming up on
Beltanefestival and still in search of software developer work.I speak the old tongues of #C, #Forth, #REXX, and #Shell, along with other foreign tongues of #Erlang, #NodeJS, #Go, #Java, #C# and more. I make utterances in #English and #French.
I command in several BSD and Linux dialects. Even wrote successful anti-spam filtering software #BarricadeMX and several #milters.
And can brag about winning the @IOCCC (but don't in polite company).
I seek employment for a worth cause with remuneration.
Please someone reach out, if only to stop me pestering you fine folks every so often with this plea.
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Coming up on
Beltanefestival and still in search of software developer work.I speak the old tongues of #C, #Forth, #REXX, and #Shell, along with other foreign tongues of #Erlang, #NodeJS, #Go, #Java, #C# and more. I make utterances in #English and #French.
I command in several BSD and Linux dialects. Even wrote successful anti-spam filtering software #BarricadeMX and several #milters.
And can brag about winning the @IOCCC (but don't in polite company).
I seek employment for a worthy cause with remuneration.
Please someone reach out, if only to stop me pestering you fine folks every so often with this plea.
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Let's just all switch back to #rexx, I'm quite sure the bad "datacenter in space!" people won't bother us then.
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Let's just all switch back to #rexx, I'm quite sure the bad "datacenter in space!" people won't bother us then.
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Let's just all switch back to #rexx, I'm quite sure the bad "datacenter in space!" people won't bother us then.
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Let's just all switch back to #rexx, I'm quite sure the bad "datacenter in space!" people won't bother us then.
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Let's just all switch back to #rexx, I'm quite sure the bad "datacenter in space!" people won't bother us then.
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@BRicker I was a VM/CMS user in the 1980s and don't think I knew about REXX. I saw Regina Rexx distributed with the Windows 95(?) Resource Kit and possibly the AmigaOS ARexx version before that. I follow current ooRexx development closely, but I have not written any. I don't believe REXX under CMS, TSO, or OS/2 was used as Shell on Unix: EXECs where small macros or scripts, but control constructs could not be used interactively, AFAIK. Happy to hear from mainframe REXX users!
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@BRicker I was a VM/CMS user in the 1980s and don't think I knew about REXX. I saw Regina Rexx distributed with the Windows 95(?) Resource Kit and possibly the AmigaOS ARexx version before that. I follow current ooRexx development closely, but I have not written any. I don't believe REXX under CMS, TSO, or OS/2 was used as Shell on Unix: EXECs where small macros or scripts, but control constructs could not be used interactively, AFAIK. Happy to hear from mainframe REXX users!
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@BRicker I was a VM/CMS user in the 1980s and don't think I knew about REXX. I saw Regina Rexx distributed with the Windows 95(?) Resource Kit and possibly the AmigaOS ARexx version before that. I follow current ooRexx development closely, but I have not written any. I don't believe REXX under CMS, TSO, or OS/2 was used as Shell on Unix: EXECs where small macros or scripts, but control constructs could not be used interactively, AFAIK. Happy to hear from mainframe REXX users!
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@BRicker I was a VM/CMS user in the 1980s and don't think I knew about REXX. I saw Regina Rexx distributed with the Windows 95(?) Resource Kit and possibly the AmigaOS ARexx version before that. I follow current ooRexx development closely, but I have not written any. I don't believe REXX under CMS, TSO, or OS/2 was used as Shell on Unix: EXECs where small macros or scripts, but control constructs could not be used interactively, AFAIK. Happy to hear from mainframe REXX users!
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@BRicker I was a VM/CMS user in the 1980s and don't think I knew about REXX. I saw Regina Rexx distributed with the Windows 95(?) Resource Kit and possibly the AmigaOS ARexx version before that. I follow current ooRexx development closely, but I have not written any. I don't believe REXX under CMS, TSO, or OS/2 was used as Shell on Unix: EXECs where small macros or scripts, but control constructs could not be used interactively, AFAIK. Happy to hear from mainframe REXX users!
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Blog
In the latest of his blog entries, Carl Svensson investigates the unsubstantiated claim that Commodore received a REXX license from IBM in exchange for using design ideas from the Amiga Workbench in the development of OS/2 2.0. His conclusion, though: this rumor is not true:
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Blog
In the latest of his blog entries, Carl Svensson investigates the unsubstantiated claim that Commodore received a REXX license from IBM in exchange for using design ideas from the Amiga Workbench in the development of OS/2 2.0. His conclusion, though: this rumor is not true:
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Blog
In the latest of his blog entries, Carl Svensson investigates the unsubstantiated claim that Commodore received a REXX license from IBM in exchange for using design ideas from the Amiga Workbench in the development of OS/2 2.0. His conclusion, though: this rumor is not true:
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Blog
In the latest of his blog entries, Carl Svensson investigates the unsubstantiated claim that Commodore received a REXX license from IBM in exchange for using design ideas from the Amiga Workbench in the development of OS/2 2.0. His conclusion, though: this rumor is not true:
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Blog
In the latest of his blog entries, Carl Svensson investigates the unsubstantiated claim that Commodore received a REXX license from IBM in exchange for using design ideas from the Amiga Workbench in the development of OS/2 2.0. His conclusion, though: this rumor is not true:
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With some help from the SZE community, I can now log my service uptime and latency in #Db2 using #Golang !
I've got a service called CompInvZ which links into my Db2Z host to find services, then it periodically tries to connect and records the result back to DB2
A friend of mine took it a step further and is using #ISPF to interact with Db2 via #REXX
That means #CICS is next on the list, thanks #Walmart !
https://github.com/walmartlabs/zECS -
With some help from the SZE community, I can now log my service uptime and latency in #Db2 using #Golang !
I've got a service called CompInvZ which links into my Db2Z host to find services, then it periodically tries to connect and records the result back to DB2
A friend of mine took it a step further and is using #ISPF to interact with Db2 via #REXX
That means #CICS is next on the list, thanks #Walmart !
https://github.com/walmartlabs/zECS -
With some help from the SZE community, I can now log my service uptime and latency in #Db2 using #Golang !
I've got a service called CompInvZ which links into my Db2Z host to find services, then it periodically tries to connect and records the result back to DB2
A friend of mine took it a step further and is using #ISPF to interact with Db2 via #REXX
That means #CICS is next on the list, thanks #Walmart !
https://github.com/walmartlabs/zECS -
With some help from the SZE community, I can now log my service uptime and latency in #Db2 using #Golang !
I've got a service called CompInvZ which links into my Db2Z host to find services, then it periodically tries to connect and records the result back to DB2
A friend of mine took it a step further and is using #ISPF to interact with Db2 via #REXX
That means #CICS is next on the list, thanks #Walmart !
https://github.com/walmartlabs/zECS -
With some help from the SZE community, I can now log my service uptime and latency in #Db2 using #Golang !
I've got a service called CompInvZ which links into my Db2Z host to find services, then it periodically tries to connect and records the result back to DB2
A friend of mine took it a step further and is using #ISPF to interact with Db2 via #REXX
That means #CICS is next on the list, thanks #Walmart !
https://github.com/walmartlabs/zECS -
OORexx. Класс блокировки ресурсов
При работе нескольких независимых процессов использующих общие ресурсы, возникает задача синхронизации доступа. Ресурсом может выступать как файл или строчка в файле, так и доступ к железу или же ожидание завершения вычисления в параллельном процессе. Для реализации синхронизации между процессами необходимо иметь возможность межпотокового обмена данными. В OORexx для реализации многопоточной работы есть инструкции « guard » и « reply ». Но они относятся к работе в рамках одного процесса. Для синхронизации работы разных процессов можно использовать семафоры и внешние очереди (каналы). Вот о них мы и поговорим.
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OORexx. Класс блокировки ресурсов
При работе нескольких независимых процессов использующих общие ресурсы, возникает задача синхронизации доступа. Ресурсом может выступать как файл или строчка в файле, так и доступ к железу или же ожидание завершения вычисления в параллельном процессе. Для реализации синхронизации между процессами необходимо иметь возможность межпотокового обмена данными. В OORexx для реализации многопоточной работы есть инструкции « guard » и « reply ». Но они относятся к работе в рамках одного процесса. Для синхронизации работы разных процессов можно использовать семафоры и внешние очереди (каналы). Вот о них мы и поговорим.
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OORexx. Класс блокировки ресурсов
При работе нескольких независимых процессов использующих общие ресурсы, возникает задача синхронизации доступа. Ресурсом может выступать как файл или строчка в файле, так и доступ к железу или же ожидание завершения вычисления в параллельном процессе. Для реализации синхронизации между процессами необходимо иметь возможность межпотокового обмена данными. В OORexx для реализации многопоточной работы есть инструкции « guard » и « reply ». Но они относятся к работе в рамках одного процесса. Для синхронизации работы разных процессов можно использовать семафоры и внешние очереди (каналы). Вот о них мы и поговорим.
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I'm leaning toward #Forth for #AdventOfCode2025. I've been looking at Forth and #Rexx and the whole "build your own kitchen sink" feeling appeals to me. I see some libraries out there, but I can avoid them :)
Being on an Apple Silicon Mac limits my selection of Forths--no Rosetta no how. I had hoped for more pure C engines than I found.
gforth is the big kid on the block, but last time I played with it I couldn't build it myself (a soft requirement). Installs and runs well, but feels "big" and I'm looking for "small."
pforth https://github.com/philburk/pforth is an early favorite. I crash it sometimes but that's my bad code.. Feels solid with correct code.
fforth (this one) https://cowlark.com/fforth/index.html builds and runs like greased lightning.
muforth https://github.com/nimblemachines/muforth would probably simulate the programming for a dedicated device experience. I'd have to see if its ARM support could run under a container on my Mac. Maybe qemu?
If anyone sees this and has suggestions for something I missed please let me know.
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I'm leaning toward #Forth for #AdventOfCode2025. I've been looking at Forth and #Rexx and the whole "build your own kitchen sink" feeling appeals to me. I see some libraries out there, but I can avoid them :)
Being on an Apple Silicon Mac limits my selection of Forths--no Rosetta no how. I had hoped for more pure C engines than I found.
gforth is the big kid on the block, but last time I played with it I couldn't build it myself (a soft requirement). Installs and runs well, but feels "big" and I'm looking for "small."
pforth https://github.com/philburk/pforth is an early favorite. I crash it sometimes but that's my bad code.. Feels solid with correct code.
fforth (this one) https://cowlark.com/fforth/index.html builds and runs like greased lightning.
muforth https://github.com/nimblemachines/muforth would probably simulate the programming for a dedicated device experience. I'd have to see if its ARM support could run under a container on my Mac. Maybe qemu?
If anyone sees this and has suggestions for something I missed please let me know.
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I'm leaning toward #Forth for #AdventOfCode2025. I've been looking at Forth and #Rexx and the whole "build your own kitchen sink" feeling appeals to me. I see some libraries out there, but I can avoid them :)
Being on an Apple Silicon Mac limits my selection of Forths--no Rosetta no how. I had hoped for more pure C engines than I found.
gforth is the big kid on the block, but last time I played with it I couldn't build it myself (a soft requirement). Installs and runs well, but feels "big" and I'm looking for "small."
pforth https://github.com/philburk/pforth is an early favorite. I crash it sometimes but that's my bad code.. Feels solid with correct code.
fforth (this one) https://cowlark.com/fforth/index.html builds and runs like greased lightning.
muforth https://github.com/nimblemachines/muforth would probably simulate the programming for a dedicated device experience. I'd have to see if its ARM support could run under a container on my Mac. Maybe qemu?
If anyone sees this and has suggestions for something I missed please let me know.
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I'm leaning toward #Forth for #AdventOfCode2025. I've been looking at Forth and #Rexx and the whole "build your own kitchen sink" feeling appeals to me. I see some libraries out there, but I can avoid them :)
Being on an Apple Silicon Mac limits my selection of Forths--no Rosetta no how. I had hoped for more pure C engines than I found.
gforth is the big kid on the block, but last time I played with it I couldn't build it myself (a soft requirement). Installs and runs well, but feels "big" and I'm looking for "small."
pforth https://github.com/philburk/pforth is an early favorite. I crash it sometimes but that's my bad code.. Feels solid with correct code.
fforth (this one) https://cowlark.com/fforth/index.html builds and runs like greased lightning.
muforth https://github.com/nimblemachines/muforth would probably simulate the programming for a dedicated device experience. I'd have to see if its ARM support could run under a container on my Mac. Maybe qemu?
If anyone sees this and has suggestions for something I missed please let me know.
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Coming back here ... too much post-apocalyptic news and politics elsewhere.
I'm gearing up for #AdventOfCode2025 and trying to decide which language to use. It's either
#Pascal, which I know well.
#Forth, which I haven't seriously looked at in a few decades.
#Rexx, same as Forth (on *nix, not a mainframe).I've done AoC in Pascal, C, and Fortran in the past. All work well, but if I don't try a new language, I'll go with my first love in FPC Pascal.
Anyone who might see this, do you have opinions/recommendations/experience with using Forth or Rexx for #AdventOfCode? I've got a month to re-familiarize myself with either Forth or Rexx.
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Coming back here ... too much post-apocalyptic news and politics elsewhere.
I'm gearing up for #AdventOfCode2025 and trying to decide which language to use. It's either
#Pascal, which I know well.
#Forth, which I haven't seriously looked at in a few decades.
#Rexx, same as Forth (on *nix, not a mainframe).I've done AoC in Pascal, C, and Fortran in the past. All work well, but if I don't try a new language, I'll go with my first love in FPC Pascal.
Anyone who might see this, do you have opinions/recommendations/experience with using Forth or Rexx for #AdventOfCode? I've got a month to re-familiarize myself with either Forth or Rexx.
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Coming back here ... too much post-apocalyptic news and politics elsewhere.
I'm gearing up for #AdventOfCode2025 and trying to decide which language to use. It's either
#Pascal, which I know well.
#Forth, which I haven't seriously looked at in a few decades.
#Rexx, same as Forth (on *nix, not a mainframe).I've done AoC in Pascal, C, and Fortran in the past. All work well, but if I don't try a new language, I'll go with my first love in FPC Pascal.
Anyone who might see this, do you have opinions/recommendations/experience with using Forth or Rexx for #AdventOfCode? I've got a month to re-familiarize myself with either Forth or Rexx.
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Coming back here ... too much post-apocalyptic news and politics elsewhere.
I'm gearing up for #AdventOfCode2025 and trying to decide which language to use. It's either
#Pascal, which I know well.
#Forth, which I haven't seriously looked at in a few decades.
#Rexx, same as Forth (on *nix, not a mainframe).I've done AoC in Pascal, C, and Fortran in the past. All work well, but if I don't try a new language, I'll go with my first love in FPC Pascal.
Anyone who might see this, do you have opinions/recommendations/experience with using Forth or Rexx for #AdventOfCode? I've got a month to re-familiarize myself with either Forth or Rexx.
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Coming back here ... too much post-apocalyptic news and politics elsewhere.
I'm gearing up for #AdventOfCode2025 and trying to decide which language to use. It's either
#Pascal, which I know well.
#Forth, which I haven't seriously looked at in a few decades.
#Rexx, same as Forth (on *nix, not a mainframe).I've done AoC in Pascal, C, and Fortran in the past. All work well, but if I don't try a new language, I'll go with my first love in FPC Pascal.
Anyone who might see this, do you have opinions/recommendations/experience with using Forth or Rexx for #AdventOfCode? I've got a month to re-familiarize myself with either Forth or Rexx.
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Legallyrxx nos invita a la Isla Takamura y habla de (((REXX))) | #RollingStoneES
https://es.rollingstone.com/legallyrxx-nos-invita-a-la-isla-takamura-y-habla-de-rexx/
#rexx #album #entrevista #entrevistas #legally #legallyrxx #rexx
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legallyrxx viaja a Isla Takamura en (((Rexx))) | #RollingStoneES
https://es.rollingstone.com/legallyrxx-viaja-a-isla-takamura-en-rexx/
#rexx #artistasmexicanos #disco #lanzamiento #legallyrxx #nuevoálbum #rexx
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Cowliwshaw in "The REXX Language" (1985) outlines the purpose of REXX as a (what we later call) scripting language:
- Personal programming (for a few people)
- Tailoring user commands (Shell scripts, wrappers, etc.)
- Macros (embedding)
- Prototype development (for a short time)Automation and "glue" code (Ousterhout, 1998) are other functions for general purpose scripting languages.
This is orthogonal to interactive Shells though.
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Cowliwshaw in "The REXX Language" (1985) outlines the purpose of REXX as a (what we later call) scripting language:
- Personal programming (for a few people)
- Tailoring user commands (Shell scripts, wrappers, etc.)
- Macros (embedding)
- Prototype development (for a short time)Automation and "glue" code (Ousterhout, 1998) are other functions for general purpose scripting languages.
This is orthogonal to interactive Shells though.
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Cowliwshaw in "The REXX Language" (1985) outlines the purpose of REXX as a (what we later call) scripting language:
- Personal programming (for a few people)
- Tailoring user commands (Shell scripts, wrappers, etc.)
- Macros (embedding)
- Prototype development (for a short time)Automation and "glue" code (Ousterhout, 1998) are other functions for general purpose scripting languages.
This is orthogonal to interactive Shells though.
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Cowliwshaw in "The REXX Language" (1985) outlines the purpose of REXX as a (what we later call) scripting language:
- Personal programming (for a few people)
- Tailoring user commands (Shell scripts, wrappers, etc.)
- Macros (embedding)
- Prototype development (for a short time)Automation and "glue" code (Ousterhout, 1998) are other functions for general purpose scripting languages.
This is orthogonal to interactive Shells though.
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A while back I tackled the idea of converting my #budget #spreadsheet to a normal Program.. With reports, transaction processing, and lots of traditional #Banking features I decided to use #RetroComputing #Mainframe tools and languages like #REXX, #VSAM, #IBM S370 a la MVS Tk5, and now #COBOL has joined the project to replace some #x86 (or Z) #Golang preprocessing. Not just any COBOL, #MVT COBOL'68 which lacks MANY modern/OOP/String functionality as they're commonly known.. Hello PIC X OCCURS!
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A while back I tackled the idea of converting my #budget #spreadsheet to a normal Program.. With reports, transaction processing, and lots of traditional #Banking features I decided to use #RetroComputing #Mainframe tools and languages like #REXX, #VSAM, #IBM S370 a la MVS Tk5, and now #COBOL has joined the project to replace some #x86 (or Z) #Golang preprocessing. Not just any COBOL, #MVT COBOL'68 which lacks MANY modern/OOP/String functionality as they're commonly known.. Hello PIC X OCCURS!
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A while back I tackled the idea of converting my #budget #spreadsheet to a normal Program.. With reports, transaction processing, and lots of traditional #Banking features I decided to use #RetroComputing #Mainframe tools and languages like #REXX, #VSAM, #IBM S370 a la MVS Tk5, and now #COBOL has joined the project to replace some #x86 (or Z) #Golang preprocessing. Not just any COBOL, #MVT COBOL'68 which lacks MANY modern/OOP/String functionality as they're commonly known.. Hello PIC X OCCURS!
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A while back I tackled the idea of converting my #budget #spreadsheet to a normal Program.. With reports, transaction processing, and lots of traditional #Banking features I decided to use #RetroComputing #Mainframe tools and languages like #REXX, #VSAM, #IBM S370 a la MVS Tk5, and now #COBOL has joined the project to replace some #x86 (or Z) #Golang preprocessing. Not just any COBOL, #MVT COBOL'68 which lacks MANY modern/OOP/String functionality as they're commonly known.. Hello PIC X OCCURS!
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A while back I tackled the idea of converting my #budget #spreadsheet to a normal Program.. With reports, transaction processing, and lots of traditional #Banking features I decided to use #RetroComputing #Mainframe tools and languages like #REXX, #VSAM, #IBM S370 a la MVS Tk5, and now #COBOL has joined the project to replace some #x86 (or Z) #Golang preprocessing. Not just any COBOL, #MVT COBOL'68 which lacks MANY modern/OOP/String functionality as they're commonly known.. Hello PIC X OCCURS!
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I've completed "Code Chronicle" - Day 25 - Advent of Code 2024. 50 stars in the bag.
Using REXX made some things difficult. But in some cases, it was probably actually easier to deal with than a typical { } style language.
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I've completed "Hoof It" - Day 10 - Advent of Code 2024
I somehow managed to accidentally do part 2 first. So that ended up being pretty quick.
