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[Steven Champeon <schampeo AT hesketh.com>]

on Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 05:38:34PM -0400, Michael D. Thomas wrote:
> 
> > Explaining that JavaScript can be found inside a JSP page tends
> > to tax the brains of others that just had the JSP is a JavaServer
> > Page pep talk. Getting them to stop saying JavaScript Pages...
> > Cost: $400/h
> 
> Here's one for you:
> 
> Imagine an architecture where a JSP creates an XSL page for transformation 
> in
> to a modern HTML page. (I won't comment on the goodness/badness of such an
> architecture.)
> 
> In the space of just a couple of lines, you could *reasonably* have 6
> languages: Java, JSP, XSL, XPath, Javascript and HTML.
> 
> This could very well be the highest programming language density
> (languages/characters) ever seen since programming began.

Don't forget CSS.

I once worked on a project that used server side includes[1] on an
Apache server[2] to include CSS[3] and JavaScript[4] and HTML[5] into
HTML[5] pages that were generated by a shell script[6] running a perl[7]
script that spoke SQL[8] to a MySQL database to fetch page content that
had been entered using PHP[9] and DHTML[3,4,5] UI logic.

I toyed with the idea of throwing in a couple of TCL apps, just for
maximum density, but sanity won out.

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