Interesting Press Release from O'Reilly

[Gavin McKenzie]

I realize that comments on the press release aren't really on topic for
this group, but...

I don't want to start a 'this scripting lang is better than that
scripting lang' religious argument, but I'm hoping that we can all see
that ECMAScript (JavaScript) is a current and lightweight scripting
language handled by a standards body.

Further, you can get implementations on lots of platforms.  There's a
freely available engine called FESI (can't remember the URL) and an
engine available on alot of platforms from a company called Nombas
(www.nombas.com).

Just wanted to point it out, given that XSL already seems to have
ECMAScript in it, and it is more accessible to non-developer types like
my customers than Perl.

Gavin.

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>From: 	Paul Prescod[SMTP:papresco at technologist.com]
>Sent: 	Wednesday, March 11, 1998 11:38 AM
>To: 	xml-dev at ic.ac.uk
>Subject: 	Re: Interesting Press Release from O'Reilly
>
>Let me take this opportunity to point out that Python already ships with
>an xmllib.py which is a non-validating XML parser module. Plans for the
>next version of Python are more extensive. Also Python/XML programming
>was featured in the February Dr. Dobbs. Python is going to give Perl a
>real run for its money in this niche (although it doesn't support
>Unicode yet either).
>
> Paul Prescod  - http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco
>
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