If you need a hand with the ActiveX stuff just call my name, Captain crummybots to the rescue ;) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Casey Duncan" <cduncan@kaivo.com> To: "Michael R. Bernstein" <webmaven@lvcm.com> Cc: "Jonathan Byron" <geodigest@telocity.com>; <zope@zope.org> Sent: Monday, April 02, 2001 11:35 PM Subject: Re: [Zope] Parrot Language a Hoax?
"Michael R. Bernstein" wrote:
Jonathan Byron wrote:
The date of the press release on the merger of python and perl have
made a
few people wonder just how serious it is, not to mention the fact that the two languages are so dissimilar that merging them is like merging English and Chinese.
I am trying to find a polite way to say 'Duh!'.
This idea is so improbable, that not even the page on O'Reilly's site could make me blink: http://www.oreilly.com/parrot/
I mean, look at this code:
# copy stdin to stdout, except for lines starting with # while left_angle_right_angle: if dollar_underscore[0] =eq= "#": continue_next; } print dollar_underscore; }
Or this one:
while(@line = Sys::Stdin->readline()): continue_next if $line[0] =eq= "#": print @line; }
Bleh!
Michael Bernstein.
Wow, a language with both explicit and implicit block delimiting! Truely an idea whose time has come! I especially like starting a block with ":" and ending it with "}". Also, putting one line conditional code before the conditional statement is pure brilliance.
I think I will rewrite Zope in Parrot. While I'm at it I think I'll add VBScript support server-side along with Frontpage Bots support. I'm thinking that using Bots could even make DTML obsolete! I will also add a few more frames to the management interface and use Active X form elements. I'll release it under the GPL of course!
Just think of the possibilities!
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