Re: Compaq's WebL language

[htoug]

in reply to Re: To mechanize WWW::Mechanize: a scraping language?
in thread To mechanize WWW::Mechanize: a scraping language?

I just had a look at it, and I must say:
  Yuck!!!
It look's a bit like the worst of Pascal and ECMAScript rolled into one.

Why not stay with Perl for doing thing like this? You will probably end up needing a full language to do anything serious, and then you will have to reinvent Perl!

[mojotoad]

I agree that it's not pretty -- perl is better suited for most, if not all, of the tasks it accomplishes.

What I had in mind was leveraging existing WeBL scripts, or translating them. Also, if you look at the problem space that WeBL addresses, it serves as a good source of sign posts for the sort of constructs you'd want for a general purpose web-weasel language.

Matt