OpenEuphoria

Re: putting RIA into Euphoria

• Posted by Jason Gade <jaygade at yahoo.com> Jun 09, 2007
• 543 views

Thaddeus Quay wrote:
> 
> Bernie Ryan wrote:
> >
> > Sounds like CGI which Euphoria is already used for. 
> 
> No.  In CGI, a Euphoria program is called by a server, like Apache, which then
> returns a web page, completing an operation which is usually stateless.  A
> EuphoRIA
> program is inherently stateful, because it would use its database to remember
> what has happened.  Also, a EuphoRIA program would run locally, thereby not
> requiring all of the hassle of CGI (as in, existing on another machine, and
> the testing which is then made difficult due to that fact, etcetera). 
> Finally,
> a EuphoRIA program would be persistent, allowing continuous computation and
> fetching of web pages, where my commands could be queued, with results coming
> in asynchronously, as opposed to the usual synchronous human usage of the
> Internet
> through a browser.

So, like Ajax? Which has the quality of having Javascript built into almost all
browsers?

--
"Any programming problem can be solved by adding a level of indirection."
--anonymous
"Any performance problem can be solved by removing a level of indirection."
--M. Haertel
"Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming."
--C.A.R. Hoare
j.