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Dan Bernier
Scripting languages instead of half-Java
Sep 27th, 2005, 1:46am  
Just curious...it's occurred to me that you could've used JRuby or Jython, or even Groovy, instead of building your own preprocessor, and had the "scripting" language for Processing be well-documented, more flexible, more powerful, more compact.  Did you guys consider this?  What were some of the thoughts around building a Java pre-processor?
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fry
Re: Scripting languages instead of half-Java
Reply #1 - Sep 27th, 2005, 4:12am  
http://processing.org/faq/index.html#whyjava
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cello
Re: Scripting languages instead of half-Java
Reply #2 - Sep 28th, 2005, 12:19am  
On a side note, it'd be interesting to see someone link processing with rhino (javascript engine for java) and do a simple online processing ide.

Marcello
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