Re: [AOLSERVER] How about... compiling alternative languages into TCL?

2004-05-25 Thread Tom Jackson
On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 10:27, DaniÃl Mantione wrote: > On Tue, 25 May 2004, Tom Jackson wrote: > > > On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 08:20, DaniÃÂl Mantione wrote: > > > > > To those unknown to the OpenACS compiler; OpenACS has its own adp parser > > > which is way more powerfull than the AOLserver adp parser

Re: [AOLSERVER] How about... compiling alternative languages into TCL?

2004-05-25 Thread dhogaza
> On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 08:20, Daniël Mantione wrote: > Hmmm. Are we looking at the same code? I'm quite sure it converts the > .adp & .tcl into a Tcl script, which it then evaluates. That would be > contradictory with ns_adp_parse. Well, time to take a closer look at it, Look at template::adp_

Re: [AOLSERVER] How about... compiling alternative languages into TCL?

2004-05-25 Thread Daniël Mantione
On Tue, 25 May 2004, Tom Jackson wrote: > On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 08:20, Daniël Mantione wrote: > > > To those unknown to the OpenACS compiler; OpenACS has its own adp parser > > which is way more powerfull than the AOLserver adp parser. > > Actually the OpenACS parser doesn't exist, ATS uses ns_re

Re: [AOLSERVER] How about... compiling alternative languages into TCL?

2004-05-25 Thread Tom Jackson
On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 08:20, DaniÃl Mantione wrote: > To those unknown to the OpenACS compiler; OpenACS has its own adp parser > which is way more powerfull than the AOLserver adp parser. Actually the OpenACS parser doesn't exist, ATS uses ns_register_adptag and ns_adp_parse. One big problem with

[AOLSERVER] How about... compiling alternative languages into TCL?

2004-05-25 Thread Daniël Mantione
Hi, While we're talking about supporting alternative languages, debuggers & a little about compilers. How about writing an OpenACS-styled compiler that can compile a language into Tcl. Ok, it might sound a bit silly perhaps and it definately won't be suitable for a lot of languages (definately no