Albert Boulanger wrote:
The MIT CURL page (with the non commercial curl) is at
Curl is intended to be a gentle slope system, accessible to content creators at all skill levels ranging from authors new to the web to experienced programmers. By using a simple, uniform language syntax and semantics, Curl avoids the discontinuities experienced by current web users who have to juggle HTML, JavaScript, Java, Perl, etc. to create today's exciting sites. Our hope is that the single environment provided by Curl will be an attractive alternative for web developers; we've certainly enjoyed using Curl to create this web site and others. A brief overview of Curl and its underlying philosophy can be found in an accompanying white paper.
This seems very interesting. It looks as though it could make tools like Zope obsolete (did I say that?), at least from a dynamic content stand-point, Zope'll always have content-management... If not, then it at least makes HTML/Javascript (DHTML) look like complete crap. Not that it looked that good to begin with... I have long thought that the client-side is heavily under-utilized in the present web infrastructure, Curl seems to address this nicely, with much more seemless client and server scripting. I think my concern lies with the "Curl Corporation," (Granted we all cower before Zope Corporation 8^)) although from appearances, the language standard seems to be public domain. It just smells like a Java-like semi-open-but-not-really standard that will prompt some eventual war with Microsoft (assuming it catches on), who will come out with Qurl, which is 99% compatible with Curl plus "extensions". Then 5 years later will come out with Db (D flat), a language that looks suspiciously like Curl, and force OEMs to ship it instead of the real thing... I'm such an optimisit, aren't I? -- | Casey Duncan | Kaivo, Inc. | cduncan@kaivo.com `------------------>