[6018] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: Languages (was Re: Forms support in clients)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Karl Auerbach)
Tue Oct 4 01:47:34 1994
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 1994 06:44:10 +0100
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From: Karl Auerbach <karl@cavebear.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list <www-talk@www0.cern.ch>
> > Keep in mind that as long as the document format is "non-procedural,"
> > that is, less expressive than a turing machine, you maintain the
> > possiblity of translating the document to another representation
> > reliably.
>
> We're clearly dealing with different goals here. I want a document that
> is able to ask you questions, and execute semi-arbitrary processes based
> on your answers. If you state the goal that broadly, you really do need
> this kind of expressiveness, and you definitely sacrifice
> translatability, as you point out.
And I want scripts I can send to a server to perform various search
and aggregation tasks. ("How" is yet to be determined -- nothing like
leaving the hard part until last?)
It would be nice if the language (or set of languages) were the same,
although there might be a different set of base primitives.
--karl--
