RE: [Bulk] Re: [Bulk] IBM announces new language environment - Node.js for i

Oh, ADA! Wasn't that supposed to be the ultimate language? I took a class
in that and look where I am now - retired.

Jerry C. Adams
IBM i Programmer/Analyst
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From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mark
S Waterbury
Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2014 10:39 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: [Bulk] Re: [Bulk] IBM announces new language environment -
Node.js for i

Hi, John:

Thanks for that update. That is good to know. :-)

Is anyone out there interested in having other compiled languages available
on IBM i, either in PASE or ILE, such as:

Ada
Modula-2
Oberon
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Any others anyone would like to see on the IBM i platform?

Thanks,

Mark S. Waterbury

On 10/7/2014 11:32 AM, John Yeung wrote:
...(snip)...
I haven't heard of anyone using Python in PASE in many years.
Certainly there may be some folks out there doing that, but the Python
I use, and which I constantly talk about on these lists, does not run
in PASE. It's a fully native application written in ILE C.

In fact, that is one reason I keep advocating so actively for it. I
try to acknowledge the other languages, as they are *in principle*
approximately the same programming paradigm as Python, and I'm fully
aware that one's credibility and persuasiveness suffer when one
appears too biased. But one thing that does set Python apart from the
others on the i is that Python is NOT a PASE language, and that does
confer some tangible benefits, like better integration with native OS
features and better performance than it would have if it were a PASE
port of standard Python.

John Y.

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