Re: [stack] ANN: Joy in Java

Hi, John,

--- In concatenative <at> yahoogroups.com, John Cowan <cowan <at> c...> wrote:
[snipped]
> Congratulations!  I'm especially impressed that the implementation
language
> is NetRexx, a language I particularly like.  
Thank you.

>I've had a soft spot for
> Rexx ever since it was the only dynamic language that could bind to
the OS/2 EE
> database; I wrote a Smalltalk program that generated a Rexx program that
> output database data in comma-separated-value format that could be
loaded
> back into Smalltalk or directly into Excel.
I also encountered Rexx on OS/2 and earlier on the AS/400.  One reason
I chose to use NetRexx is with a view to re-using the code for a pure
Rexx port of Joy.  But of course I should concentrate first on
fleshing out and improving the current implementation.

> 
> As you know but others may not, NetRexx is a statically typed language
> masquerading as a dynamically typed one that compiles into JVM class
files;
> the masquerade is arranged by the flexible value class Rexx cooperating
> with some neat assumptions by the NetRexx compiler.
I'm wondering, though, if I shouldn't just transition to a pure Java
implementation.  I have a feeling that that would lower the bar for
participation in the project for the young guns out there. 

 
> John Cowan      cowan <at> c...        http://www.reutershealth.com
>         "Not to know The Smiths is not to know K.X.U."  --K.X.U.
>

Ray

 
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