http://blog.dotbot.net/articles/tag/blub?tag=blub en-us 40 dotcom Thousandaire <p>Paul Graham first wrote about a strawman hypothetical programming language <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html">blub</a> that examined the constraints that people who choose to stay firmly embedded in only one language seem to impose upon themselves and their programming capabilities and creativity.</p> <p>Steve Vinoski, who has been writing a bunch about some of the failures of <span class="caps">RPC</span>-style distributed systems technologies (and should know, having been involved in <span class="caps">CORBA</span>), I think just extended the theme to distributed systems programming <a href="http://steve.vinoski.net/blog/2008/07/01/convenience-over-correctness/">here</a>.</p> Wed, 02 Jul 2008 06:07:00 +0000 urn:uuid:67d9b5ff-7d64-4c10-89d4-15b5a83afd83 Jonathan Altman http://blog.dotbot.net/articles/2008/07/02/and-we-shall-call-it-netblub technical webservices web services RPC advocacy blub