iScript 1.0.0 04/13/98 Preview Release

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FUTURE PLANS

Servertec's goal is to better empower web site developers by expanding and 
improving iScript. 

You can help shape the development of iScript, send your comments, 
suggestions and problems to webmaster@servertec.com. 

Disclaimer 
- The following information is subject to change without notice. 
- No definitive time frame for support of specific features or functionality
  is inferred, implied or given. 
- Support for specific feature or functionality maybe postponed, moved up, 
  dropped or added. 
- Support for specific feature or functionality is not guaranteed. 


Release 1.0 
- improve performance 
- cleanup formatting of documentation 
- test on Windows 95/NT with Netscape web servers 
- test on Linux (UNIX) with Netscape web servers 

Release 1.1 
- add support for session, application and server objects 
- add support for client certificates 
- add support for define/undefine command line options 
- add support for configuration file for setting defaults 
- create additional examples 

Release 1.2 
- make use of java reflection to seamlessly access java object 
  constructors/methods/properties 
- remove use of wrappers as mechanism to access java object
  constructors/methods/properties 
- add better support for date/timestamp/time objects 
- add support for add/subtract/compare operations using date/time/timestamp objects 
- add support for user defined constants, const <var> = <expression> 
- add support for system constants, null/true/false/error 
- add support for statement delimiter, [;] 
- add support for statement continuation delimiter, [\] 
- add support escape characters in strings 
- add support for multidimensional arrays (object, string, double, long, integer) 
- add support for while/wend compound statement 
- add sipport for single line if/then/else statement 
- add support for on statement 
- add support for select case/case/case else/end select compound statement 
- add support for for/each/next compound statement 
- add support for user defined functions 
- add support for return {expresion} statement 
- add support for public/private/protected/static scoping of
  functions/variables/constants 
- add support for error object 
- add better support for objects 
- add support for parse/format (convert) functions 
- add support for exponential function 
- add support for extended string functions 

Release 1.3 
- expand language to better support web page/site generation 
- add support for additional server side objects (mail/ad rotator/browser
  capabilities/content linking (page navigation) objects/object pool/cookies/mime types) 

Release 1.4 
- add direct support for apache/netscape/microsoft/sun web servers 

Release 1.5 
- add support for debugger 

Release 1.6 
- add support for object oriented constructs class/extends/implements class 

Release 1.7 
- create separate tokenizer/dumper/loader/runner 

Release 1.8 
- directly generate Java Byte Code using compiler