Declarative/Functional Language: SequenceL
Aug 25This is the language I’ve been using at Texas Tech for about a year now. You can’t find anything about the language other than from the research papers about SequenceL that Dr. Cooke has published.
Hired!
Aug 25The most awesome company in the world, Rackspace, hired me yesterday! The people I’ve met so far are great; they’re super nice. I’m going to get to use Ruby and Ruby on Rails on a day to day basis! My first day is September 7th, and I can’t wait. Between now and then we’ll be relocating to San Antonio. We’re pumped.
Thoughts on XBRL
Aug 14The problem with XML based standards is that they’re all intertwined with every other standard or RFC ever invented.
XBRL is dependent upon XML Schema, XLink, and XPointer. XLink is dependent upon XML Base, XPointer, and Legacy Extended IRIs (LEIRIs). The LEIRI and XML Base specifications are dependent upon several RFCs.
I’m not even a quarter the way through the XBRL specification yet. :-O
Treetop
Aug 10Treetop is a parser generator that makes it super simple to prototype new languages. Within just a few minutes you can have a parser that is capable of telling you whether a particular sentence is grammatically valid or not.
Yesterday Anson and I prototyped an entire interpreter in 20 minutes. Granted, it was only a calculator, but it was an interpreter nonetheless.
