[exprla-devel] Re: Okay....

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--- In xpl-dev@y..., "Garreth Galligan" <garreth.galligan@o...> wrote:
I've heard of HTMLScript (vaguely), but didn't know about the name 
change until you brought it up in a previous mail. I think an open 
source version would be a great *application* of XPL. Who wouldn't 
want to use super easy PHP / free ASP. It would certainly help open 
up the field of server-side development to HTML authors, and they're 
going to need something to do if XML is properly and widely adopted 
by industry (as surely it must be, or am I naive and all we'll be 
looking at is XHTML?).

I believe we could happily turn out a version of HTMLScript, hell 
JAVA's API's have done most of the work for us (and that's just if we 
want to ignore the sizeable body of components out there that 
probably already *have* done the work, just plug 'em together). Throw 
it at James Clark's parser and sprinkle in a little JDBC and Bob's 
your Uncle.

However I must now stick my face in the blender of controversy:
 
MivaScript is mostly a DB API with a little control flow and math 
added for flavour. We are not creating an *eXtensible* Programming 
Language if MivaScript is our model.

Sure some of Jonathan's ideas may seem off the wall and 
Aly's "drowning in a sea of GOTO's" (which is a very interesting 
concept and I haven't stopped thinking about it yet) would cause most 
OO programmers to throw fits and curl up in the corner frothing at 
the mouth. But it's all grist for a debate that must happen before we 
can begin to commence to proceed on XPL. A debate where the word 
architecture is used a lot and I get to stick a least one set of 
parentheses in every paragraph.



I'd like to start it by asking a question that no one has asked yet:
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WHY do we need XPL? (and MivaScript may comes into the answer there)
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Which has been preceded by, and will be succeeded by:
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WHAT is XPL?
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