Some of us have been doing a good job introducing new concepts and processes
by writing to, or discussing with, fellow librarians.
Many of us have been in the situation where a librarian who doesn't want a
change (i.e. add homework and work for her/his load) would hide that by
saying 'I don't
Peter -
I was bewildered at the notion of needing yet another scripting
language, let alone one as library domain-specific (that wording
alone throws up red flags everywhere), but I'm not here to bash ideas.
Instead I looked up your site and read the small blurb about Nova.
It seems that the main
I would be very unlikely to use someone's homegrown library specific
scripting language.
However, if you want to make a library for an existing popular scripting
language that handles your specific domain well, I'd be quite likely to
use that if I had a problem with your domain and I was
This is one of my favorite passage from SICP:
It is no exaggeration to regard this as the most fundamental idea in
programming:
The evaluator, which determines the meaning of expressions in a programming
language, is just another program.
To appreciate this point is to change our images of
(Cross-posting to Web4Lib, Code4Lib, and Drupal4Lib - apologies for any
duplication.)
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On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 5:03 AM, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu wrote:
I would be very unlikely to use someone's homegrown library specific
scripting language. However, if you want to make a library for an existing
popular scripting
language that handles your specific domain well, I'd be
