Notices by @reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman: (reiver@mastodon.social), page 2

"I think the most widely used programming languages have come not from the programming language research committee, but rather from people who build systems and wanted a language to help themselves. PL researchers tend to create languages that are useful for PL researchers: they […] aren't usually useful for real systems. Systems people create languages that are useful for systems builders, so they get widely adopted"
⸺ John Ousterhout

https://pldb.com/posts/JohnOusterhout.html

#programmingLanguages #programming

"Tcl had its heyday in the 1990's, due in large part to the power of the Tk toolkit and the awfulness of the other X Window GUI toolkits; Tcl/Tk was the easiest and most powerful way to create GUI apps. Unfortunately, Tcl didn't make the jump to the Web, and most of the applications for which people would have used Tcl in the 1990s became Web applications."

https://pldb.com/posts/JohnOusterhout.html

#tcl #tk #programming

For example, how about a replacement for URLs, URIs, etc that is based on Unicode UTF-8 rather than ASCII.

(UT8RL?)

I wish the Internet protocol community would move from ASCII to UTF-8.

That way, the Internet protocols that were meant to be human-legible and programmer-legible could go back to being human-legible and programmer-legible.

All this encoding Unicode and UTF-8 into ASCII (ex: percent-encoding) detracts these Internet protocols from being human-legible and programmer-legible.