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New Language CURL Merges HTML And Javascript

Posted by timothy on from the like-a-hole-in-the-head dept.

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.

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  1. And some old news isn't worth repeating. by Giant+Hairy+Spider · · Score: 3, Informative

    Curl is several years old. It was picking up a little momentum as a freely available language/browser (source available) hosted from an MIT page (http://curl.lcs.mit.edu/curl/). It was an academic project with a grant from DARPA. IIRC, the academic page simply disappeared one day (maybe I've just been unlucky every time I try to access it; it's cached on google).

    A year or so later, the commercial page showed up with mounds of reeking lawyer-speak.

    The idea is pretty good, but it had a hard time taking off when it was free. Maybe it would make sense for someone to do a similar Lisp/TeX cross, but their attitude toward how to promote it is so ridiculously wrong that it's obviously not going anywhere in its current form.

    Don't you just love it when government-funded academic research gets fenced off by a clueless corporation?

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  2. old news? by dyregod · · Score: 3, Informative

    again? http://slashdot.org/articles/01/04/06/1335241.shtm l

  3. The best part about deja vu... by Kletus+Cassidy · · Score: 5, Informative

    ...is being able to read the most insightful comments all in one place.

    Curl Instead of Java or JavaScript? posted by michael on Friday April 06, @02:56PM

    Re:Java, anyone? (Score:5, Insightful) by Jason Earl (jdearl@yahoo.com)

    Some more words... (Score:5, Insightful)by guku on Friday April 06, @03:18PM EST

    Commentary (Score:5, Insightful)by Nohea (sd at nohea dot com) on Friday April 06, @03:16PM EST

    Curl == Spyware (Score:5, Insightful)by stonewolf on Friday April 06, @03:45PM EST