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Thursday, 2008-02-21
16:43
by LionKimbro -
Growing a Language, by Guy Steele
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growingalanguage
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video
programming
fortress
planforgrowth
growth
bootstrapping
bootstrap
programminglanguage
programminglanguages
programminglanguagedesign
languagesize
agglutinativelanguage
ultralargesystem
ultralargesystems
worseisbetter
apl
lisp
java
guysteele
garbagecollection
genetichistory
plaintalk
seamless
intentionalprogramming
google
star
programming language not a thing, a pattern for growth; design a way of doing -- some choices now, other choices later; lisp is "seamless"
Monday, 2007-05-21
Thursday, 2007-05-03
19:31
by LionKimbro -
Advice to writers by Vonnegut
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kurtvonnegut
style
elementsofstyle
strunckandwhite
writing
write
plaintalk
also by 1 other
THANK YOU, watkins!
Thursday, 2007-02-15
Wednesday, 2007-01-31
Saturday, 2006-09-16
18:55
by LionKimbro -
Zero Configuration networking with Bonjour - Google Video
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ip
networking
lan
googletechtalk
google
techtalk
video
bonjour
dns
zeroconf
protocol
autodiscovery
plaintalk
also by 1 other
Sunday, 2006-08-06
Saturday, 2006-08-05
Monday, 2006-05-15
Thursday, 2006-05-04
Wednesday, 2006-02-22
14:00
by LionKimbro -
HP: For circuits, swap silicon for molecules | CNET News.com
Explanation on Page 2; Should be diagrammed, put on Wikipedia
Tuesday, 2005-10-04
19:04
by LionKimbro -
Toward Dialogue Documents as Creative Conversational Tools
It's a paper about "dialog documents," which, I understand from the abstract, means documentation that includes connections to transcripts of the dialogs that led to the creation of the document itself. He talks about how this might be technically implementd, how a compiled document differs from a bunch of dialog (in terms of usefulness to people,) ...
Monday, 2005-08-29
19:23
by LionKimbro -
Luis Villa's Blog
with tag
plaintalk
A GNOME developer talks about the virtues of plain language. References Jon Stewart.
Monday, 2005-07-11
Sunday, 2005-06-19
21:36
by LionKimbro -
mas 964 IDENTITY SIGNALS - fashion,time and status
"Fashion signals indicate the signaler’s access to (current) information..." Particular language choices can be expensive to fake, but show that you know what's going on in a particular field.