Zebulon

[Fozzy]

Zebulon is a web programming language i have been developing for over 2 years. Zebulon is basically, all the popular programming languages of the web in one small package. This includes: HTML, JAVA, JAVASCRIPT, CSS, AJAX, PHP, ASP.NET, and many more. Some languages, such as PHP and ASP.NET have NOT been fully integrated into the Zebulon language. An starting example Zebulon script would look like this:

<zeb::"ZebulonPro.akx">
<openAs::HTML>
<zeb::BODY>
<!--ScriptBox-->
<!--EndScriptBox-->
<end::BODY>
<end::HTML>

I am looking foward to a 1.5 version of Zebulon by Christmas. You can download it at: exapto.com/zebulon/ZebulonLite.tar.gz. If the downoad link doesn't work, you can download it from the main website: exapto.com.

[Jordan]

Your post is almost spam. I've left it in tact to criticize though:

1) It looks like HTML wrapped in XML. Basically you stole those two ideas and merged them?
2) Are any browsers even able to interpret that?
3) You had a mix of languages up there. Some where client side, some were server side. Which is your language?
4) Is your language interpreted or compiled?
5) Can you show us an example webpage made using your language?

[Xav]

Maybe he's written some sort of custom interpreter that spits out HTML to the browser? Odd.

[WingedPanther]

Originally Posted by Fozzy

Zebulon is a web programming language i have been developing for over 2 years. Zebulon is basically, all the popular programming languages of the web in one small package. This includes: HTML, JAVA, JAVASCRIPT, CSS, AJAX, PHP, ASP.NET, and many more. Some languages, such as PHP and ASP.NET have NOT been fully integrated into the Zebulon language. An starting example Zebulon script would look like this:

<zeb::"ZebulonPro.akx">
<openAs::HTML>
<zeb::BODY>
<!--ScriptBox-->
<!--EndScriptBox-->
<end::BODY>
<end::HTML>

This sounds very bizarre. Is this a .NET language? I would think so based on your claim that it supports ASP.NET... The sample code doesn't look like any of the languages you mentioned. What advantages does it offer over existing languages?

[ooisootuck]

Can't see any advantages over other languages, can you please post a sample website using your language?

Thanks

[Fozzy]

To set one thing straight: Xav is right about one of Zebulon's basic concepts: it interprets the language written and spits it out into your browser, but not just as HTML. Zebulon has proudly and successfully rendered Javascript, HTML, DHTML, and CSS encoded webpages. Have you been coding a website, and had to make an index.html, page1.html, and style.css? Well, with Zebulon, you can write multiple scripts inside a single document and in alternating languages as well. Meaning: index.html contains:

<zeb::"ZebulonPro.akx">
<openAs::HTML>
<zeb::BODY>
<!--ScriptBox-->
<!--SOME HTML-->
<!--EndScriptBox-->
<end::BODY>
<end::HTML>

<!--BREAK-->

<openAs::CSS>
<zeb::BODY>
<!--ScriptBox-->
<!--SOME CSS-->
<!--EndScriptBox-->
<end::BODY>
<end::HTML>

Instead of there being 3 pages: index.html, page1.html, and style.css, index.html will contain the main page, the secondary page, and the style sheet.

Zebulon is considered more of a language frame, since it supports a variety of programming languages, and has no real code structure. If you wish to view an example website using the new Zebulon PHP support library, visit exapto.com.

And NO this is not spam, I really don't mind if you visit the link above or not...

[Xav]

So for it to work server-side as well - it spits out a PHP page, which then goes into a PHP interpreter, which then spits out HTML etc?

[WingedPanther]

This seems counter-productive to me. One of the reasons I split code into multiple files is to help keep it organized. When doing ASP/ColdFusion development, I could "easily" put all the source into a single file, but then it would be a nightmare to locate a given piece of functionality and fix it.

Once you take the approach of splitting source files to ease maintainability, then the issue of mixed languages goes away, rendering Zebulon unhelpful (based on what you've said so far).

[Fozzy]

Well, I have spoken to a number of friends and even family members who program, and they said that they would preffer the advantage of just having to program into one single document, and use the FIND option to locate certain parts of code, instead of going through an entire library of files and folders to locate a single file.

So say if you write this:

<zeb::"ZebulonPro.akx">
<openAs::HTML>
<zeb::BODY>
<!--HTMLBox-->
<!--70 LINES OF HTML-->
<!--EndHTMLBox-->
<end::BODY>
<end::HTML>

<!--BREAK-->

<openAs::CSS>
<zeb::BODY>
<!--CSSBox-->
<!--40 LINES OF CSS-->
<!--EndCSSBox-->
<end::BODY>
<end::HTML>

And you want to find inside the HTMLBox, "<div name="division1">", you would just use the FIND option (CTRL+F) and find that snippet of code.

Anyway, thanks for the feedback guys! =)

[Jordan]

I honestly can't believe they would prefer it. I have to ask how long have they been programming? If you take a look at the source code for this website you will see a fairly large HTML source. Now, if you included all 7 of the JavaScript files and the JQuery libraries files that they include plus the thousands of PHP files vBulletin and Joomla require (not to mention all the different CSS files) into one file it would be a nightmare.

You show simple examples but how about a large site that connects to a database, and have a multitude of data, tables, css, javascript, etc?