I took a small dive into the language design pond, after I stumbled over a paper by Linda McIver and Damian Conway that discusses Seven Deadly Sins of Introductory Programming Language Design. After years programming, I almost forgot how difficult it is to learn a programming language; let alone designing one .

In his blog post Andrej Bauer also explains a few (bad) programming language design decisions that have survived from the ancient past, i.e., the Seventies:

If this were the year 1972 we would talk about efficiency first and forget about the programmers, because 37…

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We’ve been working on the Tweetflow notation for a while now and after we’ve integrated Tweetflows into Push Notfications, we came up with the idea to represent Tweetflows (more specifically: the Tweetflow service requests) in the JSON format. Each command is a triple and consists of the command (the verb), the object and the data where the object comes from. The latter is typically represented by an URL that points to the actual object (we call this COD notation – Command Object Data). This approach lets us easily encode sequences of Tweetflow commands in JSON. The example…