What is Bento?
Bento is an object-oriented declarative language for defining web sites.
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Who
...is Bento for?
Bento is for developers of web sites large and small.
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...owns Bento?
No one owns Bento. Bento is an open, non-proprietary language with
an open-source reference implementation.
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...defines Bento?
The Bento specification is maintained by
bentodev.org, a community of developers and others who share the goals and vision of
the Bento language.
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Introducing Object-Oriented Declarative Programming
Bento is a declarative language which follows object-oriented principles. While a number of procedural
languages are object-oriented (C++, Java, Python and others), Bento is the first declarative language to
incorporate the fundamental principles of object orientation: encapsulation, which is the ability
to hide data and logic in an object; inheritance, the ability to define a new kind of object as
an extension of an existing kind, specifying only the differences; and polymorphism, the ability
to use such an extended object wherever the original object is expected.
Any developer who works in HTML, ASP, JSP, PHP or virtually any other declarative language
can now choose to work in Bento instead. Bento files are easily compiled into HTML, ASP, etc.
using a Bento compiler such as bentoc, free for download.
Alternatively, a Bento server such as BentoServlet (also free for download)
can use the Bento files to generate HTML dynamically.
The benefits of using object-oriented techniques are substantial:
- makes hard problems tractable
- makes huge projects manageable
- makes complex programs maintainable
- allows solutions to be captured, generalized and reused, turning
an expense (a programmer's time and effort) into an investment
Code Is Poetry
Another benefit of object-oriented programming is harder to measure but no less important: it is
more fulfilling for the programmer. Most programmers choose their field because they deeply enjoy
programming. Programming is a form of creative expression, and the most widely used languages
among professional programmers are the ones that best enable programmers to be creative.
Object-oriented techniques allow programmers to write metaphors in code, to find and express
deeper truths, to reconcile form and function.
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