On 01/11/06, L. V. Lammert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wed, 1 Nov 2006, Mark Bucciarelli wrote:> Do you have a recommendation for a client-side Ajax lib to use > with C? > Huh? How can you run C code in a browser? Lee
The short answer: You don't. The long answer: Ok, so here goes -- for the benefit of the archives: Read http://www.webpasties.com/xmlHttpRequest/ . Note how XMLHttpRequest is key here. It links the client side (where we have HTML/CSS/ECMAscript and possibly other clientside stuff) with whatever code is running on the server. I'm using the word "link" very loosely here: XMLHttpRequest can make the browser request data without page reloads. That data doesn't really have to be in XML format (cf. JSON). The code on the server (that talks to XMLHttpRequest) could effectively be just about anything: PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, Java/JSP, even C. /* begin increasingly off-topic techno-giddy mullarkey */ And while I don't know that it has been done, in theory at least, there's nothing to stop you from writing the server side logic in pure assembly language. Oh, don't just write it in assembly language. Write it in assembly language by hand editing in a hex editing environment inside vi (:%!xxd / :%!xxd -r) via a 2400 baud teletype using this programming technique when writing your loops: http://tinyurl.com/y65oeu PS: I once read that Google allegedly, allegedly generated their fancy-schmancy AJAXian Javascript code by first writing Java code and then using some kind of cross-converter to turn the Java code into JavaScript code. Either the person who wrote that was seriously confused and STILL didn't get that Java and JS are completely different animals, or Google is doing something that I can only marvel and awe at. PPS: Someplace else I read that reportedly, reportedly most people who code for a living do so in Java. No idea if that's true, though if it is, it could explain what Google is reportedly doing...
