The Curl Platform

As released by Curl Corporation, the Curl technology consists of three elements: the language, the development environment, and the runtime engine.

The MIT engineers called their newly created Web language Curl because of the curly brackets {} , which are a key part of its syntax. The language offers a streamlined integration of text, markup, scripts, and applets, combing the functionality of common Internet technologies in one environment. Furthermore, it supports advanced two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) graphics, XML, event-driven user interaction, and networking. Curl is a fully featured object-oriented programming language, which in July 2001 had over 250 hours of development and displayed an API of approximately ...

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