Thanks, Owen. Watching his talk in Paris now: http://ashkenas.com/dotjs/ --- -. . ..-. .. ... .... - .-- --- ..-. .. ... .... stephen.gue...@redfish.com 1600 Lena St #D1, Santa Fe, NM 87505 office: 505-995-0206 tollfree: 888-414-3855 mobile: 505-577-5828 tw: @redfishgroup skype: redfishgroup redfish.com | simtable.com
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 10:42 AM, Owen Densmore <o...@backspaces.net> wrote: > I know folks have heard all the buzz about JavaScript, but may be confused > about what's the big deal. I gave a wedtech on it long ago but it has some > useful details: > http://backspaces.net/temp/JSEverywhere.pdf > > This is a pointer to one of the heros of the JSE revolution, Jeremy > Ashkenas. He is best known for his work with CoffeeScript, a pythonic > version of JS that compiles to JS. He's also championed "Literate > Programming" where your code is meant to be read. > http://ashkenas.com/literate-coffeescript/ > Here's the actual program Journo he's currently blogging with: > https://github.com/jashkenas/journo/blob/master/README.md > It's code even tho it looks like a document. The indented, highlighted > pieces are Journo's code. The entire page is parsed by the coffeescript > compiler and the runnable program produced. > > If you use twitter, look him up, he's worth following. > https://twitter.com/jashkenas > .. he's recovering from his intense work via a huge around-the-world trip. > I believe he wrote Journo just before he left so that he could have a live > blog of his trip. You can follow him and his myriad photos at > http://ashkenas.com > > The point of all this is a new maturity in the computing world that is > sorta a renaissance. Simplicity, Art, and directed to a goal. > > -- Owen > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >
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