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Re: LYNX-DEV Javascript update
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Barry Rountree |
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Re: LYNX-DEV Javascript update |
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Wed, 29 Jan 1997 12:37:30 -0500 (EST) |
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> >> So, as far as the project goes, I'm now looking at implementing a
> >> Javascript-like language in lynx. I'll see how far this idea goes....
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> Why invent yet another language? If I were going to do this, either building
> in support for JavaScript, or using a current embeddable language such as
> Tcl, Python, Perl, seems like the approach I would use. Designing a language
> that only can be used by Lynx browsers seems less than optimal. Lynx
> is unlikely to gain the community that JavaScript has.
>
A good point and well taken.
Designing a language that can be used only by lynx is indeed less than
optimal -- indeed, it is academic. Which is most of the problem. My idea
to implement Javascript as a thesis project was thoroughly stomped on by
my thesis advisor. The comprimise was to implement some toy language of
my own creation to demonstrate that implementing HTML-based interpreted
languages is doable, and *then* worry about doing something useful.
The next question is: Why bother? Aside from getting an MS, the above
would not seem to add much to the functionality of lynx. Hopefully, I
can direct this project so that the point becomes the construction of the
mechanisms allowing any yacc-based interpreted language to be "plugged in"
to lynx. Once the groundwork has been laid with my toy language, anyone
else who had a "real" language compiled in yacc could implement it with
minimal [giggle] effort.
Athough it's probably obvious, let me state for the record that a
"BarryScript" [1] enabled lynx will probably be of interest to five or six
people, tops, and would not be part of the general distribution package.
Thanks for the comments!
> Larry W. Virden INET: address@hidden
Barry Rountree
Florida State University
[1] My advisor's idea, not mine. Trust me.
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