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While it's novel that it's compiling to PHP, you're still at the mercy of PHP as a language and what it has to offer. For instance, PHP lacks a true closure so

by koblas 18y ago

While it's novel that it's compiling to PHP, you're still at the mercy of PHP as a language and what it has to offer. For instance, PHP lacks a true closure so if Kira want's one it'll have to build out a full system... C++ : C => Kira : PHP

LogicHoleFlaw 18y ago
Joel Spolsky's language Wasabi compiles down to VBScript and PHP and JavaScript. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/09/01b.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/09/01b.html Features of Wasabi: closures, active records, lambdas, embedded SQL a la LINQ Wasabi is 100% backwards-compatible with VBScript but includes obvious improvements.
brianr 18y ago
From the examples page, it looks like Kira supports closures through normal PHP classes: http://www.mathgladiator.com/projects/kira/?examples http://www.mathgladiator.com/projects/kira/?examples