BRL the Beautiful Report Language

This page is for BRL 1, which has not been actively maintained since October, 1997. See BRL 2 for more recent developments.

BRL is a language designed for server-side WWW-based applications, particularly database applications. Its facility for generating output from databases makes it a report language. It hides powerful semantics behind a simple syntax, resulting in code that is easy to write, read and maintain. This makes it a beautiful language: BRL, the Beautiful Report Language.

Advantages:

• Fast Development - I found it more than five times faster than developing with PL/SQL.
• Intuitive - View BRL code in a web browser to clearly see where generated HTML goes.
• Runs Fast - Uses a next-generation gateway interface called FastCGI.
• Modular - The architecture of BRL will keep up with changes in webserver, database and language technology.