Explanation
Lasso provides administration management over Lasso (via its internal users and groups) to control explicit access permissions-based to data sources and language features to improve security and data integrity in a multi-author web application development environment. Lasso Server provides access to MySQL and many other databases via JDBC, ODBC, and FileMaker Pro. Lasso Server runs on Mac OS X, Windows 2000, Windows 2003 and Red Hat Linux.
Lasso's language, Lasso Dynamic Markup Language (LDML), can be written in a square bracket tag format which resembles HTML, or in a LassoScript format similar to many other scripting languages such as PHP, Perl, WebDNA and Python. LDML can be written with procedural or object-oriented techniques and structures, and supports many data types including arrays (indexed lists) and maps (name referenced lists).
Lasso is an extendable language. It currently includes the ImageMagick suite of image manipulation tools, the ability to generate PDF documents and process and send email. Lasso also includes broad support for industry standards such as XML, SOAP, WSDL, JSON, Java EE, and Java Beans. Lasso can be extended by writing custom routines which can be used and reused as custom tags or create new functionality via Java or C programming languages to suit many needs.
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