Copyright (C) 1999, 2000 Bruce R. Lewis and Eaton Vance Management These files are distributed in the hope that they will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the file named COPYING for more details. WHAT BRL IS 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. Thus its name, BRL, the Beautiful Report Language.