Curl – A gentle slope system

Curl is intended to be a gentle slope system, accessible to content creators at all skill levels ranging from authors new to the web to experienced programmers. By using a simple, uniform language syntax and semantics, Curl avoids the discontinuities experienced by current web users who have to juggle HTML, JavaScript, Java, Perl, etc. to create today’s exciting sites. Our hope is that the single environment provided by Curl will be an attractive alternative for web developers

Post author By Shishir Sharma
Post date December 8, 2008
13 Comments on Curl – A gentle slope system

Recently I (Shishir Sharma ‘criss’ )came to know about Curl Language. It’s a MIT – DARPA project. It’s a multi-paradigm hybrid functional language. Curl is reflective, homo-iconic, object oriented programming language. It supports closures, macros and declarative layouts.

Its syntax is based on TEX and has a big set of formatting operations. Curl is very scientific language, As they state …

“one uses the same easy-to-learn syntax to create interactive documents as to create regular text documents.”

Curl is highly extendible, components can also be developed for curl using Curl only.I also impressed with road map curl is following. As they state

“Curl is intended to be a gentle slope system, accessible to content creators at all skill levels ranging from authors new to the web to experienced programmers. By using a simple, uniform language syntax and semantics, Curl avoids the discontinuities experienced by current web users who have to juggle HTML, JavaScript, Java, Perl, etc. to create today’s exciting sites. Our hope is that the single environment provided by Curl will be an attractive alternative for web developers”

I am surprised why it is not popular in India. This language deserved a popular place all over the world. It’s targeted to RIA (Rich internet application). Apparently soon it will be a competition for Adobe AIR/FLEX/MS Silver light and believe me it will be beating them.

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By Shishir Sharma

Shishir Sharma is a husband, hacker, biker. Bachelor of electronics & communication engineering by training. He is a visionary, mentor, problem solver, technology enthusiast. He can speak in Javascript, Ruby, Python, PHP; Fluent in C, C++. He is a moderator at LUG-Jaipur. He loves action movies and FPS games.

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13 replies on “Curl – A gentle slope system”

Hi Criss,

Thank you for the kind words about Curl. I was excited to read your review. I encourage you to join our community at Curl which has many developers including many from India. You’ll find people there that have the same vision as you do!

Here is the URL for our community center
http://developers.curl.com/index.jspa

All the best,

Richard Monson-Haefel
VP of Developer Relations
Curl, Inc.

Thanks haefel,

I am already a member of curl developer community.

Hope curl will win the world…

hello sir,

Nice to read about curl.
And what’s up over there??

How are you?
Keep in touch.

Gaurav

Every thing is fine here…

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