Sessions at Open Source Bridge 2011 about REST and All Languages and sarcasm with notes

Thursday 23rd June 2011

• Snooze, the Totally RESTful Language

  by Markus J. Q. Roberts

  Our motto: *you snooze, you lose!*

  Every paradigm eventually produces a language which pushes it to its puritan limit; lambda calculus let to church notation, in which even numbers are functions; symbolic list processing produced lisp, in which even code is a list; OOP gave us Smalltalk, in which everything is an object; the stack machine model produced forth in which everything a stack operation is; the modifiable storage location paradigm produced c, in which even the memory after a buffer...well, you get the idea.

  But until about a week ago, the RESTful paradigm had failed to deliver on this fine tradition. There was no language in which every object of the denotational semantics was fully first-class and REASTful, with its own URI and CRUD. But now there is.

  You have been warned.

  • All Languages
  • Humor
  • Math humour
  • REST
  • sarcasm

  At 10:00am to 10:45am, Thursday 23rd June

  Coverage note