Dictionary Definition
escapade
Noun
1 a wild and exciting undertaking (not
necessarily lawful) [syn: adventure, risky
venture, dangerous
undertaking]
2 any carefree episode [syn: lark]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
From French escapade, "the act of escaping" or "a trick" < Old Spanish escapada < Old Spanish escapar < Vulgar Latin excappare.Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -eɪd
Noun
- A daring or adventurous act; an undertaking which goes against convention.
Translations
daring or adventurous act; undertaking which
goes against convention
- German: Eskapade
Extensive Definition
Escapade, or ESP for short, is a server-side
scripting language that is designed to provide an easy
interface to database
contents. It was written in 1997 by Ed Carp and enjoys wide use in
Europe, but has had limited acceptance in the United
States. Plans were underway to open source the software in
early 2007.
Escapade is designed to create dynamic web
documents from this data.
While server-side
scripting is not a new concept, ESP is designed to enable
programmers to have easy access to data in databases and display a
formatted version of it in their web pages without having to resort
to ASP
or relatively complicated Perl or PHP scripts.
Escapade was originally designed to fill the need
for a simple server-side
scripting product that ran on non-Windows
platforms. As such, it currently runs in the UNIX and Linux environments,
the "workhorse" platforms
of the Internet and
Intranet.
Plans for Windows NT
development are under consideration.
In addition to current support for the popular
and efficient MySQL database, plans are underway to
support Oracle
and other generic ODBC-compliant
databases (Sybase, SQL Server,
etc.) in the immediate future. Escapade is written in C,
which makes it easy to port to other platforms.