[Gambas-user] Suggestion...

[Rob Kudla]

On Sun August 20 2006 23:24, nando wrote:
> There is Java and there is Java Script.

In case you didn't realize it, the only relationship between Java 
and Javascript is a marketing one.  Sun wrote Java, Netscape 
wrote Javascript to capitalize on the Java name (and made some 
kind of deal with Sun to do so.)

> There is Gambas and where is 'Gambas Script' ??

I wrote a proof of concept "GambasScript" executable a few years 
ago.  What it did was take a Gambas program in a single file, 
create a temporary project in /tmp, compile and run it.  
Unfortunately, since I wrote GambasScript in Gambas and you 
can't use a script as an interpreter for a script language under 
Linux (or probably any other OS), I gave up on it.  (That was 
when I joined the call to make Gambas executables "real" (i.e. 
ELF) executables with the interpreter being a library linked in 
at runtime, like VB programs are.)

But I still think it would be a good idea for there to be a 
Gambas interpreter that would take a single program file and 
compile and run it "just in time".

> It could be possible to have a Gambas
> Script plugin for web-browsers.

VBscript as a browser plugin was a horrible idea, and is just now 
starting to go away.  (So were the Tcl and Perl browser 
plugins.)  GambasScript as a browser plugin is also a horrible 
idea.  The language of the web, already decreed by standards 
bodies, is ECMAscript (the standardized version of Javascript.) 
If we want to change it, I think our time would be better spent 
trying to make Javascript suck less than try to get all the 
browser makers to include a language hardly anyone has ever 
heard of.

I think if we wanted to run Gambas scripts in a web browser, it 
might be a better idea to just write a Gambas program that 
includes the web browser component, strip the Gambas scripts out 
of the <SCRIPT> tags, and run them as needed.  But I think the 
"generating Javascript to trigger events and doing the 
processing on the server" is a better approach for Gambas web 
applications.

Rob