LC Server style survey: co-mingle code w/HTML?

[Simon Smith]

PHP is definitely the most popular language for letting you code this way,
but then it is pretty much only for the web unlike most other languages.

Other languages can work this way too - e.g. Python has PSP, Java has JSP
as does Ruby, Lua etc. but not as popular as PHP.






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*Simon Smith*
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On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 3:23 AM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> Simon Smith wrote:
>
> > Personally I do prefer to mix HTML / code together.
>
> If you mix them together with the implied extended merge of LC Server
> rather than an explicit merge with LC Script, I'm afraid nothing in my
> toolkit can help.
>
>
> > I don't think it right to say it is a PHP way to do things though :)
>
> What other languages work that way?
>
> In LC Script the primary execution object is a script, which can
> optionally pass data to be merged with an explicit call to the merge
> function.  This pattern seems more common, e.g. Ruby, Lua, Python, and of
> course SuperCard's Flamethrower project which introduced the merge function
> to the xTalk world.
>
> With PHP (and LC Server), the primary execution object is assumed to be a
> web page, with code optionally embedded in it and the merging happens as an
> implicit part of the processing.  I can't think of any other languages that
> work that way.  Am I missing some?
>
> I don't have a judgment about it either way.  A lot of people like PHP,
> and given the range of things people make with it (nearly every major CMS
> and a lot of other server frameworks where the browser is the primary
> target) it seems to do well.
>
> The only reason I'm distinguishing the style in this thread is that LC
> Server's page-centric code is incompatible with LC Script on the desktop,
> and my tools run on the desktop.
>
>
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