Behaviours
Kevin Goldsmith ([email protected])
Thu, 20 Apr 1995 14:17:16 -0700 (PDT)
ok, how about looking at it this way:
the scripting language issue is analogous to the VRML issue. For
example, why did we create VRML rather than specifying that browsers had
to input all 3D file formats?
Why does it not make sense to create a platform independant scripting
language and if you want to use whatever your favorite language, you can
write a translator to convert from it to the VRML scripting language?
Java essentially does this with Byte coding, the Geometry Center people
also do this. This is one of the options that has been raised before.
It's possible that this is what people are arguing for and I'm being
blinded by the semantics. What I am proposing is not an API in the
traditional sense (ie: something that can be linked to). If what I am
proposing above is what is being discussed as an API, I think that we
should clear the air, because that is not an API.
Kevin