ParenScript 0.1.0 announced [LWN.net]

From:		Paolo Amoroso <amoroso-AT-mclink.it>
To:		Lisp News for LWN <lwn-AT-lwn.net>
Subject:		ParenScript 0.1.0
Date:		Sun, 20 Mar 2005 11:30:29 +0100

Manuel Odendhal has announced the first public release, 0.1.0, of the
ParenScript Lisp to JavaScript translator.  According to the author,
"ParenScript is a simple language that looks a lot like Lisp, but
actually is JavaScript in disguise.  Actually, it is JavaScript
embedded in a host Lisp. This way, JavaScript programs can be
seamlessly integrated in a Lisp web application."  ParenScript is
written in Common Lisp.

Announcement
http://blogs.bl0rg.net/netzstaub/archives/000525.html

ParenScript
http://bknr.net/parenscript


Paolo
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Lisp Propulsion Laboratory log - http://www.paoloamoroso.it/log

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ParenScript 0.1.0 announced

Posted Apr 4, 2005 18:23 UTC (Mon) by moxfyre (subscriber, #13847) [Link]

Really, really cool. You can write a web app in LISP and not worry about whether the code you are running will run on the client or server side... because the client-side code will get translated to JavaScript. That way, you can use a consistent event-based model like in traditional GUI programming.

The only thing I worry about is there may be some security flaws exposed by not paying enough attention to whether or not your data are visible on the client side.

I wish a Perl->Javascript translator exhisted, but that would probably be a nightmare to code :-)