As I read through the sample programs, I am thoroughly enjoying the aesthetics of this language. This is good! Can't wait to get fluent in it and write product code.
I am certainly not expecting to be handed everything on a silver platter (although this does come pretty close
), even though it may sound like it. Just brainstorming and looking for feedback.IMHO there are a number of interfaces to the real world needed - and maybe some or all already exist - to make Cobra the "working programmer's" language. Here are my preferences. Does this make sense for Cobra? Does it concur with your vision?
1. ActiveX support for the windows platform.
2. Internet protocols, email, ftp, http, submitting forms to other web servers, possibly using SSL, possibly mimicking being a browser, in order to intercept, reformat, delete and add to return information received from the form's recipient (such as a credit card processor).
3. SQLite. It's great that Cobra already supports MySQL. But for many, many applications that need some structured data management support, a small embedded db is a better choice. A native port of SQLite to Cobra would be the icing on the cake.
4. Fast XML support.
5. Webservices support.
6. A high-level application generator a la WaveMaker, or the Python project Dabo. In the same vein also UML support. I.e. the ability to execute UML models as OpenMDX does.
Apparently there is work being done on JVM integration? Would that mean that existing Java libraries would become callable from Cobra? It would certainly give us a quickstart.
I hope to see this language grow in leaps and bounds.
Thanks Chuck and everyone who has contributed.
Elan
