Re: What really killed WebDNA?

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2007


It keeps the original formatting.
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texte = I tried this for the phpthrowdown.com competition last year. Parsing the page went OK, but when I tried to tokenize and stack the commands I quickly ran out of memory. Using PHP to parse another fully featured language isn't feasible. I'm sure there is a more efficient way to do it (even in PHP), but that's out of my scope. Frank Nordberg wrote: > Dan Strong wrote: >> Funny, I had an IT person ask me yesterday why WebDNA didn't make it >> (after showing him 36 lines of asp.NET code vs. one line of WebDNA to >> do the same thing) > ... > > Now here's a wild idea - not sure if it's possible legally and > technically but: > > It seems to me the great advantage of WebDNA is its userfriendly > interface, just a few simple commands rather than line upon line of > code. So how about creating a "WebDNA emulator" in php? Create a > library of ready made script snippets triggered by WebDNA-like > commands. If this is possible it would at least save us from having > to reprogram everything from scratch the day WebDNA finally folds > completely. > > > Frank Nordberg > http://www.musicaviva.com > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list . > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to > > Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ > ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
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I tried this for the phpthrowdown.com competition last year. Parsing the page went OK, but when I tried to tokenize and stack the commands I quickly ran out of memory. Using PHP to parse another fully featured language isn't feasible. I'm sure there is a more efficient way to do it (even in PHP), but that's out of my scope. Frank Nordberg wrote: > Dan Strong wrote: >> Funny, I had an IT person ask me yesterday why WebDNA didn't make it >> (after showing him 36 lines of asp.NET code vs. one line of WebDNA to >> do the same thing) > ... > > Now here's a wild idea - not sure if it's possible legally and > technically but: > > It seems to me the great advantage of WebDNA is its userfriendly > interface, just a few simple commands rather than line upon line of > code. So how about creating a "WebDNA emulator" in php? Create a > library of ready made script snippets triggered by WebDNA-like > commands. If this is possible it would at least save us from having > to reprogram everything from scratch the day WebDNA finally folds > completely. > > > Frank Nordberg > http://www.musicaviva.com > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list . > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to > > Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ > ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ Matthew Bohne

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