Steven Dolg wrote:
Hi guys,
I guess its about time to write something myself...
As a colleague of Reinhard I participated in the Micro-Cocoon effort
in February.
Just as Reinhard wrote, at the end of those 3 days, there was the idea
of doing a rewrite.
Nice work, I'm eager to have a look at it :-)
The number of use cases and the appr. 5500 lines of code indicated by
Cobertura made this idea seem like an attainable goal.
Nonetheless this is/will be a challenging task - and I am attracted to
challenges. ;-)
We believed that a working sitemap interpreter (without any
components) could be created in about two days time.
So I simply attempted to do so and so far things are developing as we
envisioned.
I wouldn't consider a sitemap interpreter as being a primary goal for
Corona (or whatever its final name). This language was initially meant
to be a simple and efficient way to define pipelines.
Now over time features have been added and added again, because the
complexity of what people had to do required it. And even with that,
people have been very creative (even overly creative) in ways to
"distort" or "abuse" the sitemap language because it was still too limited.
So we can take a different approach, and consider that we can use plain
programming languages rather than grow our own "pseudo-languages". A
well-defined Java API and its Javascript binding would make people way
more productive than an XML-based language like the sitemap.
My 0.02 euros
Sylvain
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