I'm a php programmer, and before i was using asp. From year 2000 i started a project to develop a different concept of language for web develop.
The idea was to have a single source for a web application, packed in a cgi file. The syntax is c-like, and there are constructs that hide the complexity of the communication pages with the user and of all the communications with the database (the way to use a database is similar to ada one).
For example:
var a,b; b="ok"; ask a, b:submit; show "You wrote".a;
In the past eight years the language were improved to have a fully customizable graphic, and many other funny features.
I used it to create many commercial sites. It's used in many universityes for different projects, including AI projects, and many italian linux user groups report a link to it (it's GPL).
Many concepts differs from php: no session, an application in a single file, total independence from the browser, and so on.
Sorry but i never found time to complete the translation of the user manual in english.
I was thinking that can be very interesting to start a discussion, comparing the php model with the amethyst one.
Amethyst was a really cracking brain problem
But many friends followed me in the develop process and int the tests(like that:
Someone interested?
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Enrico Betti