On Jan 6, 7:18 pm, Gosi <gos...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> I guess that the Unicode APLs will let APL become more usable.
> It is necessary to have a good connection to the Web as well.
>
> As it is now I do not know of any easy way of using APL together with
> the web.
> I know there are some applications using the Web together withh APLs.
> It is just not very easy to create such applications.
Good point, and I think an important one. Yes, before Unicode, web-
page encoding for international sites was annoying enough without
adding a further mapping to and from APL internal representations.
Unicode unlocks two doors at once.
At Dyalog07 in Princeton I demonstrated a small bilingual (English and
Japanese) static website generated (apart from the image files)
entirely from a Dyalog 12 workspace. The APL code required was tiny
and (IMHO) lucid.
I've used various 'authoring' tools before: Microsoft FrontPage, PHP +
text editor, Joomla! CMS -- nothing measures up to the slickness of the
Dyalog IDE and generating everything out of a single workspace file.
I'm interested in similarly light and slick approaches to dynamic
sites. I've built one application using ASP.Net, and it seems to me
there is scope for something considerably lighter and more flexible. I
think the answer, if there is one, is going to be, as ever, staying
close to the language and avoiding cunning and elaborate frameworks,
even ones as admired as Rails. At any rate, I'm expecting an exciting
year for this work, and would be glad to hear from anyone working
along related lines.
SJT
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