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Curl

The Curl programming language (unrelated to cURL) is a reflective programming language designed to create interactive web content. It aims to replace HyperText Markup Language (HTML), Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and JavaScript with one unified formalism, but is not widely used. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... In vector calculus, curl is a vector operator that shows a vector fields rate of rotation: the direction of the axis of rotation and the magnitude of the rotation. ... In computer science, reflection (or computational reflection) is the ability of a program to observe and possibly modify its high level structure. ... A programming language or computer language is a standardized communication technique for expressing instructions to a computer. ... i am a loser In computing, HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is a markup language designed for the creation of web pages and other information viewable in a browser. ... In computing, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a stylesheet language used to describe the presentation of a document written in a markup language. ... JavaScript is an object-based scripting programming language based on the concept of prototypes. ...

Curl is a markup language like HTML, that is, plain text will be shown as text and at the same time an object-oriented programming language that supports multiple inheritance. One downside of Curl is that the combination of features destroys the separation of information, style, and behavior that HTML, CSS, and Javascript have imposed. i am a loser In computing, HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is a markup language designed for the creation of web pages and other information viewable in a browser. ...

Curl is both a language and an authoring environment where the authoring environment was as implemented as user extensions to Curl. The language can be used as an HTML replacement for the presentation of formatted text, but whose capabilities include those of scripting languages as well as to compiled, strongly-typed, object-oriented system programming. --from [MIT Curl Project]'s [white paper]

Curl applets can be viewed by means of "Curl Surge", a runtime environment (RTE) plugin for web browsers. Currently, it only works on Microsoft Windows and Linux. Computer programming (often simply programming) is the craft of implementing one or more interrelated abstract algorithms using a particular programming language to produce a concrete computer program. ... A plugin (or plug-in) is a computer program that can, or must, interact with another program to provide a certain, usually very specific, function. ... Web browser shortcuts on an Apple computer A web browser is a software application that enables a user to display and interact with HTML documents hosted by web servers or held in a file system. ... Microsoft Windows is a series of operating environments and operating systems created by Microsoft for use on personal computers and servers. ... Tux, a cartoon penguin frequently featured sitting, is the official Linux mascot. ...

External links

• MIT Curl Project - The results of the Curl research project at MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science.
• Curl, Inc. - Developed and distributes a suite of commercial products which are based on the results of the MIT research. Owned by Sumisho Computer Systems Corp., who holds the trademark to "Curl".