Great point, Owen. Perhaps we are too old to have thought of that initially. But now that you mention it, posting your app/document/service/code/etc. is almost certainly the way to go. That's where we are all coming to live anyway. Will any future system survive if it isn't web accessible and available from anywhere? Probably not. I rarely attach my papers to messages any more. I post them on a wiki and link to them. So that's the solution. Expect that anyone will be able to access your offering as long as it's web accessible from a standard browser.
-- Russ On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Owen Densmore <[email protected]> wrote: > On Dec 29, 2008, at 11:03 AM, James Steiner wrote: > >> <snip> >> I vote for javascript... it seems that your script is not going to be >> doing anything that should bump up against a cross-platform issue... >> It's just text input, processing, text-output... what could be >> simpler? For any of the tricky (e.g. display, event, css box model) >> platform quirty stuff, use a framework like jQuery. >> > > I'm glad I asked the question. Clearly javascript is the most ubiquitous > script language, although hidden within the browser. > > So the browser replaces the command-line! That has the advantage of coming > with a window system as well, which python, perl, ruby, .. lack unless they > use the "J" versions (jython, jruby, ..) which can use Java's window system > and UI toolkits. > > I have to say this is a surprise but obvious enough once you really > consider the alternatives. > > I'm wondering if this really means we might as well use a hosting service > or cloud system to deliver all our programs at this point. I mean its nice > that you can download Russ's nifty stunt and run it locally, but would most > folks prefer the web hosted solution to start with? That has the additional > advantage that you can use any scripting language you'd like: Java (Either > servlets or applets), Python, PHP etc .. all on the server. > > So from a simple scripting question we arrive at the observation that your > computer is pretty useless for sharing even the simplest programs, so might > as well use the browser, and just as easily, a hosted solution with all the > languages you'd like. > > Sneaky! > > -- Owen > > PS: Steve -- This does prove the deployment problem is real and the web > solution best. > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >
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