Re: What really killed WebDNA?
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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
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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/
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