{"id":59,"date":"2012-10-16T12:22:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T12:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/?p=59"},"modified":"2012-10-16T12:22:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-16T12:22:00","slug":"dog-a-social-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/?p=59","title":{"rendered":"Dog : A Social Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" trbidi=\"on\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/news\/429544\/new-programming-language-makes-coding-social-apps\/\">Dog seems<\/a> to be\u00a0a little language for writing social software.<\/p>\n<p>Initial thoughts :<\/p>\n<p>Big question is what it compiles to. It&#8217;s about time we had a programming language that compiles a single program down to parts that run on both server and clients, in a really easy and transparent way.<\/p>\n<p>Building in knowledge of protocols like http and json and making services like twitter at least members of the standard library is a good idea.<\/p>\n<p>Like most programmers, I&#8217;m sceptical of the \u00a0&#8220;easy English-like&#8221; nature of it. We&#8217;ve had plenty of time to learn that what&#8217;s hard in programming is the logical thinking not the strange syntax. (Update : See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quora.com\/Computer-Programming\/What-are-some-of-the-most-common-misconceptions-myths-about-programming\/answer\/Phil-Jones\">my Quora answer<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>But if Dog can become a little-language which makes it easy to configure and administrate social software back-ends then it will be very useful. Particularly if there are ways of compiling the same program down to multiple back-ends (Django, Rails, Chicago Boss etc.)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dog seems to be\u00a0a little language for writing social software. Initial thoughts : Big question is what it compiles to. It&#8217;s about time we had a programming language that compiles a single program down to parts that run on both server and clients, in a really easy and transparent way. Building in knowledge of protocols [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[249,356,423],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-little-languages","tag-programming-languages","tag-social-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}