[e-lang] Try E online! (was Re: New E user)

[Kevin Reid]

On May 17, 2006, at 20:27, Toby Murray wrote:

> An IRC eval bot is a /very/ cool way to show off E.
>
> I've been vaguely aware of E for a little over 18 months now and had
> never known that
> a) there was an E irc channel and
> b) that this channel was a great way to experiment with E for the  
> first time.
>
> My 2c is that this should be publicised more widely.

MarkM, perhaps we should put something in the relevant sections of  
erights.org?

"Try E online!

You don't need to install E to try it out. Just join the IRC channel  
#erights on irc.freenode.net, and type '? 1 + 1'."

> Also, is there the possibility to do a web-based interpreter?  
> Perhaps a Java applet on erights.org.

Two ways:

* Running E as a Java applet. This would be simple, but would require  
downloading e.jar while the user waits, and I wouldn't be surprised  
if the Java applet sandbox is too restrictive to run unmodified E  
within the browser. MarkM?.

* A web-based interface to an E vat running elsewhere. For another  
language's (particularly fancy) version of this, see <http:// 
tryruby.hobix.com/>.

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Kevin Reid                            <http://homepage.mac.com/kpreid/>