It’s just data
MicrosoftWatch [via ScriptingNews]: Box went on to call the development of a "data-oriented language" one of the "most interesting areas for innovation in the next five years." Pardon me while I wipe the drool off my chin. Hopefully, this new language will have explicit support for distributed operations. Perhaps even along the lines of what I outlined in Neurotransmitters.
Where can I sign up?
With so much interest being garnered over one of the bullet points from Don's keynote I expected that more people would have asked for my notes from his keynote that I mentioned at http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/12/14/204150/73#xml2002 but so far only one person has asked for them.
There are some things Don mentioned about this particular topic that I completely agreed with (some of the stuff he said was word for word exactly the same as some comments I had made the preceding day at dinner) and others that I think are unrealistic. Bah, this probably doesn't make any sense without writing up his keynote and adding my comments.
I guess your K5 entry didn't include enough of a teaser.
Now two people are asking for them.
And without a little unrealism, it wouldn't be worthwhile, now would it?
Fine :)
Here's some teaser material. Picking sentences at random I have
* The cost of constantly evolving standards.
* Extensibility of XML Schema and WSDL not explored by 1st Generation Web Service Implementations
* Next year is the make or break year for UDDI
* No killer app
* Programming languages need to evolve
Y'all should get the full summary [oxymoron?] this evening or tomorrow.
Have you folks seen the description for adenine? Its by the haystack folks, http://haystack.lcs.mit.edu, see the papers link. Its written in java, can compile down to bytecode for speed, but is otherwise interpreted in terms of RDF as bytecode. Has native constructs to support WSDL, xsd, and RDF(obviously) as far as I can tell...
Posted by Rahul atre: "next year is a make or break year"... I've lived through a career of such pronouncements. What I've inevitably found is that life goes on anyway...
But: extensible data eh? Double yummy!