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    copied!<h3>Preamble</h3> <p>To build dynamic web-sites, we have to master at least four languages:</p> <ul> <li>HTML for the structure of web pages</li> <li>CSS for layout and design</li> <li>JavaScript for interactivity</li> <li>A language for business rules or dynamic driven data</li> </ul> <p>In addition, there's SQL for persistent storage, Memcache for sessions and caching, APIs for the <em>many</em> different content management systems. We should also consider interacting with OpenID, Facebook, Twitter, OpenSocial in building a web application, for it to be interesting.</p> <p>All in all, it's an utter mess! </p> <p>If you take into account two objectives:</p> <ul> <li>Teaching web development to kids </li> <li>Staying productive as a team </li> </ul> <h3>Question</h3> <p>What high level systems exist that unify HTML + CSS + Javascript + (<em>Insert High Level Language here</em>, PHP preferred)?</p> <hr> <h3>Background</h3> <ol> <li>I am a software engineer with 15+ years of experience as project lead and developer with technologies like Broadvision, Autonomy, Enterprise Java, and Oracle. </li> </ol> <p>During recent years, I have focused on the developing community websites, using Drupal or PHP frameworks such as CakePHP. I <em>like</em> web development and enjoy the impedance mismatch between the technologies involved. Still the inevitable conclusion I come to is <em>there must be a better way</em>.</p> <ol start="2"> <li>I am the father of two sons (13 and 9), and while I don't want them to become programmers I would like them to comprehend computers as more than gaming machines. I like to motivate them to tinker a bit with web development to express themselves. </li> </ol> <p>Whenever I show them bits and pieces, I would love for them to have a toolset that allows them to create "interesting" results in an hour or two on a Sunday afternoon.</p>
 

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