Embedded Languages

2012/04/28 · by · in Comp*, Language

I don’t like them. I’ve ranted before about how the Web is a festering polyglot made horrific by Postel’s Law. Many, including Tim Bray, advocate more knowledge at the client end, when an error occurs in parsing the steaming pile…

Experience, CGO 2012

2012/04/04 · by · in Ideas, Language, People, Self, Tech*

I attended CGO 2012. The speakers were universally boring, but the conversations that you have with other attendees can be quite interesting. For example, I have been thinking that the hodge-podge babel of languages that makes up web applications should…