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slides about adding SPARQL like queries to interrogate existing RDBMS databases.
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"I can see how continuations would work for that, just as I can see how a bulldozer could turn over the sod in my garden, but I’m far from convinced that either is the right tool for what is really a much simpler problem."
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"Personally I have never found them idiomatic so I have no quarrel with Gilad’s reluctance, but I entirely disagree with the line of argument he uses to back it up."
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"Ultimately, I think all three models - state via REST, state via continuations or closures, state via Ajax - are important, and the job of a good web developer is to choose, for each user interaction, when to use which one."
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"You see, it’s true that Web GUIs are easy to learn. No argument there. However, my argument is that “easy to learn” is only half of what you need to create a great user interface. The other half of the equation is what I call, “easy to use“; an
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Perlmonks reply to the previous Oysters and Perl article
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It will argue against the apparently common illusion that, given a language with such enterprisey features as static type checking and compile-time provability, you can hire barely-trained monkeys and solve actual business problems well.