Abstract

The Web has transformed how we access information and applications, but Web application platforms have lagged behind the vision: Highly usable Web applications are too hard to build using established Web technology platforms. Web content needs to span the spectrum from simple formatted text, through graphics, animations, and scripting, to enterprise-scale applications that use client-side computing. The Curl language is the world's first “content language ” spanning this whole spectrum in one unified framework. The Curl language and implementation borrow from many intellectual traditions in computer science, notably including the Lisp tradition. The Curl product is now commercially available and is enjoying rapidly increasing adoption.

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