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Domain Specific Languages & Turing Completeness
Published on 2012-01-09 06:34:01
I don’t know if it’s been said before1, so in case it hasn’t, I’ll say it: Every domain specific language converges towards Turing completeness over it’s lifetime. The reason for this observation is that I’ve recently come in contact with a number of new DSLs2, which exhibit the same problem I’ve seen with other DLSs [...]
Best Tool for the Job
Published on 2012-01-01 15:52:47
I thought I’d start the new year not with a boring (or not so boring) retrospective. I’d also like to avoid a post conveying my best wishes, but of course, I do wish you all a happy new year. Instead I’d like to write a short post about an old adage and it’s (mis-)use in [...]
ContentProvider Wasted Potential
Published on 2011-12-01 11:49:36
This is only a short post in the series, and the aim is to let off some steam on the wasted potential in ContentProvider. I love ContentProviders. They’re the same sort of thing as a virtual filesystem layer (VFS): an interface, that lets people come up with ingenious ways of using it. When it comes [...]
