Tracy R Reed wrote: > One of the reasons I still have not learned any AJAX type stuff is that > I consider javascript a crummy language and I am annoyed that it has > become the standard for running in browsers. Rather than an actual > language it would have been nicer if they had just included a generic VM > (a la jvm) which we could target our perl/python/Jython/php/whatever > code to and write code in the language of our preference. But since that > is not the case we are stuck with javascript. > > I just ran across this paper which has a very interesting idea: Why not > compile our preferred language (python) into javascript for execution on > the client? Then we only have to deal with one language and can > integrate it cleanly into the class libraries of our web application > programming platform (zope/plone). > > If this were integrated with TAL or METAL such that certain XML tags > call python functions which are rendered into javascript for the client > to execute in the page instead of HTML to render in the page it could > all integrate fairly seamlessly and give our favorite web application > server and CMS a big boost in AJAX capabilities: > > http://groups.inf.ed.ac.uk/links/papers/links-icfp06/links-icfp06.pdf >
Hmmm, I'm just starting to believe there _just may be_ even more computer languages than linux distributions <tic>. This does seem to be worth a look. Just out of curiosity, where did you run across this? ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
