Re: [MacPerl] I'm back! :-)

[Mark Manning/Simulacron I <markem@flash.net>]

Thanks to everyone for replying.  I can tell there are others who are
just as excited about finally getting what I call a VPB (Visual,
Programmable, Browser).  I've been playing around with some things from
time to time (or maybe I should say as time permits) to get a web
browser with a Perl-like language up and running.  Not much success
since I'm working on three other projects at home and four here at
work.  Heh.  I feel like a jockey who's been asked to ride several
horses at one time.  :-)

My outlook on a VPB is that the browser should be a programming language
which has certain standard items to it.  Like simple commands to open,
close, and work with windows.  Must like MacPerl does it.  That HTML
should simply be a program which is loaded in to the VPB and executed. 
Thus, when a web page is downloaded, it is downloaded and then
executed.  Either by the HTML program or by the VPB itself.

Having Perl or MacPerl as the basis of the programming language would go
a long way to easing the programming tasks which lie ahead.  The only
thing is - if we are really going to be using Perl it has got to compile
into some sort of byte code.  Otherwise, why would a company like
Microsoft want anything to do with it?

One of the things I see as being a requirement is a change to the open
statement for Perl.  Something like this:

	open( THEFILE, "Path/File", <option> ) || die $!;

Where the "<option>" would be something like HTML, BINARY, TEXT, WINDOW,
etc....  It would make it a lot easier to deal with from a browser's
point of view.

Hmmmmmm...hmmmmmmm.hmmmmmm.  I was just thinking - this really is
getting awfully far a field of MacPerl and more into esoteric
discussions of things new for the world of Perl.  Matthias - do you want
us to shut up about this?  Let me know!  :-)

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