Manning.Laszlo.in.Action.Jan.2008

Welcome to Laszlo in Action. This book presents a comprehensive overview of thefundamentals of the Laszlo LZX language. We’ve taken a slightly different organizationalapproach than is used by most books on programming languages, wherethe concepts are neatly laid out in a methodical order. But we believe this isn’t theway most people learn new languages; people need to be immersed in a languageto gain fluency in it. So we organized our book to have an intensive set of introductorychapters, and then, at the earliest opportunity, we begin applying our rudimentaryLaszlo LZX knowledge toward creating an initial prototype for a Rich InternetApplication (RIA) called the Laszlo Market. Each chapter is designed both to coverthe fundamentals of Laszlo LZX and to incrementally build our application. this isn’t theway most people learn new languages; people need to be immersed in a languageto gain fluency in it. So we organized our book to have an intensive set of introductorychapters, and then, at the earliest opportunity, we begin applying our rudimentaryLaszlo LZX knowledge toward creating an initial prototype for a Rich InternetApplication (RIA) called the Laszlo Market. Each chapter is designed both to coverthe fundamentals of Laszlo LZX and to incrementally build our application.