News on an Application development system!

[Michael Hipp]

I'm utterly ignorant about S-Lang. Have a link that might be a good 
"Noob's Guide to S-Lang". Thanks.

Michael

Ben Duncan wrote:
> Ok, as many now, I have been a long time fan and advocate of Appgen.
> The demise of Appgen last October, the subsequent "legal" maneuverings
> of the company that bought JUST the AppGen "I.P.", with the latest
> being that they can "Provide" to the existing re-sellers who have
> customized VERTICALS, and "open and unlimited" AppGen re-sell license
> provided we give them the package, distribution and re-sell rights
> to our verticals !!!
> 
> Oh brother .....
> 
> Now, I have been experimenting with Python and it is indeed a very good
> language, but lacked some of the things that would be able to build a
> good "Applications Development" environment without a whole lot of work.
> This is things such as the ability to create screens that can allow
> heads down data entry as well as being applied to a GUI environment
> without having to have 2 separate code bases.
> 
> Well low and behold, I started playing with the S-Lang library someone
> did for Python, then S-Lang itself. For the time being, any development
> and experimentation to do this project using PYTHON is on hold in favor
> of doing it in S-Lang !!! S-Lang now has a "shell" environment, a much
> simpler and elegant way of building add on library modules. I am told
> S-Lang version 2.0, when it is released, is going to have even more new
> and exciting features.
> 
> An example of S-Lang's feature set is the "newt" library (based to be run
> in python) that Redhat uses as it's installer that uses the S-Lang screen
> library. JED and slrn are 2 other applications that are based in S-Lang, as
> well as the current DOS emulator system.
> 
> SO, given all that, For the past 10 days I have been heads down in the
> S-Lang doc's, creating test programs, playing with S-Lang's intrinsic
> functions and having a ball!.
> 
> There is now no doubt in my mind, that S-Lang could be the system
> to give the Appgen replacement I want. It (S-lang) could be
> extended to create the "Rapid" application development toolkit
> and runtime to run the Applications themselves.
> 
> The question is now, does anyone in the group wish to join me in
> this endeavor?
> 
> 
> -- 
> Ben Duncan   - VersAccounting Software LLC 336 Elton Road  Jackson MS, 
> 39212
> "Never attribute to malice, that which can be adequately explained by 
> stupidity"
>        - Hanlon's Razor
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