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

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--- In xpl-dev@y..., Jonathan Burns <saski@w...> wrote:
Garreth Galligan wrote:

> 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.
>

I'd reckon. XPL would seem to flourish in a rich Message Soup,like COM
and CORBA.

And ...

<xpl>
    <messageform>
        JavaBeans 1.x.y
    </messageform>
    <debugout>
        Hi! I'm an XPL program, and I speak fluent Java Bean!
    </debugout>
</xpl>

> ...

> 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)

(me neither)

> 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

Yes indeed. But we stand to learn heaps, just bybuilding a James Clark
XP parser for the tags we
have already. The architecture debate can start in
parallel, and draw on our experience with the
prototype effort.

Hah! Those Wright Brothers, how much aerodyamics
do they know?  :-)


> is used a lot and I get to stick a least one set of
> parentheses in every paragraph.

I promise to give it a rest after this, but Aly's"What is 
compilation?"
rocked me back on my heels.
I mean, the idea of compilation was delivered with
such gravity in the courses I did, that we went away
thinking it was The Inner Knowledge. The killer was
that Aly turns out to be very shrewd on software
architecture.

The paradigm has shifted.

I was burning off the weeds and thistles the other day,
when a couple of 10-yearolds stopped to join in.
Presently, I discovered I had run into the first
generation who have never seen Alien. Welcome to
the 21st Century, Jonno.

> --------------------
> WHY do we need XPL?
> --------------------

> -------------
> WHAT is XPL?
> -------------

These are the FAQs. Muchas gracias.

Jonathan
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