On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 1:32 PM, Jurgis Pralgauskis <jurgis.pralgauskis@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello,

I'd like to make life easier for writing simple php scripts (as I am teaching python and web technologies, but my students (and I) complain, that python web hosting is still not widelly affordable).

I imagine, that php is mostly similar to javascript for what's in pypy now first I need very basic things: variables, loops, some string_methods, echo and read/write to file.

I looked around https://codespeak.net/viewvc/pypy/dist/pypy/translator/js/

This is going to be moved somewhere else as it's not working as we would expect. Besides, it's translating rpython, not python into JS.

ps.: another idea: can pypy quite easily help to visualize the list (or other structure) manipulation for teaching purposes it would be kind of watchvariables functionality but more the way of https://launchpad.net/algorithms-animator

I think it's easier to do such things in pypy, since you'll write code that does in in python and not in C. But it's still work - it doesn't come for free at all. If you want to do it, you can expect to get some help. Cheers, fijal