This is a good example of Jeremy's "monetization of open source software"
http://ashkenas.com/code-reads/
Its a personal code read, mainly for several projects he's created. I'm
considering this for AgentScript once we get past our next goal:
incorporation of a few professional models.
-- Owen
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 10:55 AM, Stephen Guerin <stephen.gue...@redfish.com
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> Thanks, Owen.
>
> Watching his talk in Paris now:
> http://ashkenas.com/dotjs/
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> 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
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