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New Language CURL Merges HTML And Javascript
jluxe writes: "CNN reports that a new language, Curl, was presented at the Software Development Forum in Palo Alto. This language works via a plug-in to browsers, and attempts to merge the gap between HTML, javascript, java, and even C++. It also supports the Macromedia Flash plug-in. Interesting to note that Tim Berners-Lee is listed as a financial backer of this venture, as well as an adviser." Here's the Curl Corporation's official website as well.
William H Gates III is a manager at a Redmond, WA company that acquired the rights to Quick&Dirty Operating System to resell to IBM. He has since devoted his time to vaccinating children from the Third World, with the support of his wife Melissa, who is ironically named after a computer virus.
George Herbert Walker Bush is a member of the US aristocracy, currently the Duke of Washington; his father was the Earl of Texas and his brother Jed is the current Marquis of Florida. In the United Kingdom by contrast heriditary peers have recently lost their voting rights.
Shigeru Miyamoto is a religious figure based in Kyoto, where he is sent letters of devotion from his followers.
Karol Wojtyla is a Polish guy who moved to Italy for the better weather and an ISO-8859-1 compatible character set, where he likes to speak to people in the local piazza.
Why don't I just put up a page of C++ source and tell people to "lynx -source http://code_url|gcc"?
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Sure, whatever...
And get haunted late at night because of all the guilt you have for letting people see all the compiler errors for not piping it to g++ ?
Sure, why not...
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Please note: ESR had 150,000 shares of LNUX, and wrote this when LNUX was trading at $239 per share, as opposed to its current price of $2 per share.
So you can bankrupt some company just by sitting there clicking "reload" all day?
I see even classic Slashdot is now pretty much unusable on dial up anymore.
In a separate note, Nicodaemos announced today that he is releasing his new language, Hurl, at the masses. "Many people in the industry are very excited about this new language." says Nico. "In fact, Steve Ballmer was heard to say that this is one language he just couldn't keep down."
Nico states that "Though the software is free, Hurl makes money by metering and charging fees to businesses that 'Hurl' down their users throats." "It's very exciting technology.", says Nico, "Companies will be able to send their content as projectiles to a user's browser in chunks." "Other languages are very watered down. They're here and then they're gone. Hurl sticks to you and seeps into places within your organization you never thought possible. And it's persistent. Even though you don't see it, you'd swear you could smell it. Hurl leaves a lasting impression on you."
This isn't all marketing hype. Hurl does seem to be gaining momentum with developers. One developer was recently heard to say, "... Passports, C#, .NET ... Jeez it all just makes me want to Hurl!"
The prediction business is very tricky and although I'm not a psychic, I'm predicting that the upcoming release of Windows XP looks like it will drive many to Hurl, in a big way.
...is to generate press releases, news articles and Slashdot threads. I've never heard anyone use it. I just hear people pointing it out to each other and saying: "Tim Berners-Lee backs it." As if that automatically makes it more interesting than all of the other languages (client and server side) out there.
Pay as you go looks like a pretty clear way to kill a programming language to me...
What's to prevent Curl Corporation, or an eager stock option holder, from writing a web robot that simply hits the Curl servers over and over driving up the characters served? In fact, this could lead to a form of economic warfare, where people/companies force other companies to spend money paying Curl instead of developing products.
HTML and Javascript merge, yet just watch as iexplore gets exploited by more malicious code...