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HACK programming language installed on Athena
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Tue Apr 8 17:52:05 2014
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
To: software-announce@mit.edu
Cc: alexp@mit.edu, cfyi@mit.edu
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2014 17:51:40 -0400
I've installed the HACK programming language and associated runtime,
hhvm, on Athena. Hack is a web-oriented language that is similar to, and
largely compatible with php, that supports both static and dynamic
typing. To use it on Athena, create a file containing HACK code
(myfile.php for example), then use hhvm to run the code by typing:
add hacklang
hhvm myfile.php
HACK is intended for developing dynamic web pages but the Athena
computing model doesn't support running web servers. To get around this,
it's possible to run a HACK-enabled web server in a virtual machine that
you can access from a browser on the host machine. Detailed HOWTO
instructions and links to tutorials and documentation are at
http://web.mit.edu/hacklang_v3.0/README.athena
Alex
