Re: v11 progress report

> Hi all,
>
> Despite my illness, fortunately I have been able to work quite a bit  
> on Active4D v11. If you're wondering why it is taking me so long,  
> Active4D represents more than 8 years of work with over 100 source  
> files comprising 30,000 lines of code.
>
> I'm working my way up the layers upon which Active4D is built. Here  
> is a basic picture of the architecture:
>
> runtime
> interpreter | server
> lists
> SymbolTable | values
> Variable4D
> framework
>    arrays | text | date/time | files | 4D environment | logging
>
> Almost everything in the framework has been done, at least enough to  
> finish Variable4D, which is my class wrapper around the basic 4D  
> variable type (PA_Variable).
>
> SymbolTable is also done. SymbolTable is the class used to implement  
> Active4D collections, which I use to store local variables,  
> sessions, http headers, cookies, etc.
>
> Now I'm working on Values, which are classes that model all of the  
> values dealt with in the language (local/process/interprocess  
> variables, collections, table/field references, and constants). This  
> should a few days.
>
> Lists are things like a list of libraries, a list of sessions, etc.  
> They should only take a day, they are pretty small classes.
>
> The interpreter and server are quite complex as you can imagine, and  
> will need a lot of work because of the change to Unicode. It could  
> easily take me a week to finish those two.
>
> Finally there is the runtime. I have 22 runtime source files to go  
> through. Some of them will take very little time. Some will take  
> much more time because of Unicode changes and because any code that  
> used the operating system API has to be changed. That could take a  
> week or so to finish.
>
> So it looks like I'm 3-4 weeks away from a beta. I sure hope there  
> are a lot of you out there waiting to upgrade...
>
> Regards,
>
>   Aparajita
>   www.aparajitaworld.com
>
>   "If you dare to fail, you are bound to succeed."
>   - Sri Chinmoy   |   www.srichinmoy.org
>
>
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