Re: Run BASIC to be released this weekend!

alexcombs1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
> Well, the same can be said of an Apache/Php/mySQL install. There's
> quite a few installers that will do it all pretty easily.

I think I'm the PHP coder Carl was talking about...  Think of Run BASIC 
as self-contained LAMP stack, but instead of LAMP it's WSSB: Windows, 
Seaside, SQLite, Basic.

Speaking from my own observations as a PHP/Perl coder, with some 
ASP/ASP.NET and RoR experience: Run BASIC is a BASIC (language, not 
level of complexity) version of the RoR concept scaled for personal use. 
  It's a self-contained system with a language sitting just beneath the 
application layer so your serving and scripting blend together seamlessly.

It's easy to say "but the LAMP stack," because it's true you can do 
everything you do in Run BASIC in PHP (for that matter, you can do 
everything you do in PHP in Perl, Ruby, Python, or C#).  Where Run BASIC 
diverges from PHP is...well...whenever I code in PHP, I have to fire up 
Komodo as well as my browser.  Komodo to edit files, the browser to test 
them.  Run BASIC kind of smooshes that down to just the browser; I can 
edit, debug, and run Run BASIC apps with only a browser.  I love Komodo, 
but it's nice to finally have a web language where the editor and 
application both run in the same medium.

I think that may be the biggest difference when comparing PHP to Run 
BASIC.  PHP may be a platform for developing application, but Run BASIC 
is its own stack, in addition to being a platform.  I hope that makes 
the kind of sense I want it to.

> One other thing I noticed is that you didn't say it sup****ted Opera on
> this page:
http://www.runbasic.com/seaside/go/runbasic?_s=fLcZWNMmzSNupWar&_k=lyaKzBOL.
> You may want to clear up what that means. I imagine Run BASIC should
> work in all modern browsers?

Probably *should*...and I'm still dissecting this, so Carl's welcome to 
tell me to shut up here :)...but Run BASIC uses some JavaScript 
libraries for controlling events, namely POSTing when you click on 
links.  I'm not sure if it's the prototype/scriptaculous libraries that 
come with Seaside or something else.  That may be the reason for the 
Opera not being mentioned.  I'm not sure.

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