Stephan Michels wrote, On 14/07/2003 12.32: ...
All JavaScript Code can be transform into Assembler, or Basic. That's
not the point. A programming language should make the implementation
of a solution for a given problem as easy as possible.
We have already discussed what language to use in the past, and Javascript won. That was months ago, and I don't remember that in the meantime there have been changes to the underlying assumptions.
Personally, as I said, I welcome the creation of support for other languages for the FOM, but we should not do it here in cocoon, at least not now.
I had already asked, for example, if BSF (bean scripting franework, now in Jakarta), could be used as a layer to the scripting part, and this could make it trivial to add different languages, while maintaining the *same* FOM underneath.
Alas, it's not possible until BSF itself gets support for continuations, *and* all the scripting languages we want to use have their continuation implementation underneath. If you look in the archives you will find a very informative mail about this from Chris (IIRC).
But we are talking about similar procedutral languages, here, not about using a different paradigm for the flow; FSMs are a a totally different way of approaching the problem IMHO.
What I would like to see? BSF support for continuations, and the use of this BSF from Cocoon. If someone has some time to spare...
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