On 10/13/2009 12:14 PM, Darren New wrote:
> Better would be something like
> x = new Window();
> x.title = "Hello there";
> x.background_color = red;
> ....
> x.show();
>
> Of course, that works best if your language is meta enough that you can
> put strings like "title\thello\nbackground_color\tred\n" into a file and
> read the file at runtime and generate those calls/assignments without a
> whole lot of effort. (And the assignments would translate to method
> calls, of course, in the overloaded-operator sense.)

Sounds like you would like HTML Applications (HTA).

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms536496(VS.85).aspx

Now obsolete in favor of PowerShell.

-Mike

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