>Does history remember the names of art critics? NO.
Uhh, yes. People who care deeply about art know that throughout the history of the written word, certain people who weren't artists themselves played an important role in getting the people around them to appreciate new kinds of artwork that was being developed. From Vasari to Cocteau to Clement Greenburg and Calvin Tompkins, there've been a lot of people writing about art (i.e. "art critics") who may be currently alive or may be long dead and gone, but who are still read and appreciated and yes, remembered.
One thing that's interesting about the relationship of LISP and XML is that XSLT, the W3C standard for transforming XML in which stylesheets are expressed as specialized XML documents, is a great-grandchild of LISP. It's derived from DSSSL, an ISO standard for transforming and formatting SGML that no one used because of all the Silly Parentheses, and DSSSL was based Scheme. People have taken to XSLT more easily than to DSSSL because it's easier to read: when I see "" it's very clear to me exactly which structures are ending, even if I'm reading a hard copy of it, but when I see "))))" it's not always easy to tell which "(" goes with which ")" at a glance.
Bob DuCharme
See http://www.snee.com/bob/xsltquickly for info on upcoming "XSLT Quickly" from Manning Publications.
More specifically, XML is a Markup Language (the "ML" in "XML"). That's why, when people call it a programming language, I tell them, "if it was a programming language, it would be called XPL!"
Bob DuCharme - see http://www.snee.com/bob/xsltquickly for
info on upcoming "XSLT Quickly" from Manning Publications.
fatbrain's ematter lets you publish an electronic edition of your book. You set the price, and when someone buys one from them, they take half the money and send you the rest, making a 50% royalty rate for the author.
They'll take Acrobat, Word, Postscript, or flat text files. For pages that look nice and can be viewed on multiple platforms, including Windows, without putting any money in Bill Gates' pocket, I'm sure Acrobat will fit the bill.
Why, to show off his "design" skills. The colors, the fonts, the "interactivity" of that page--you're not thinking of the "total user experience"! Users want more than information from a web site; they want a, uhh, total user experience! And sensible users won't mind postponing access to the information they're after (or merely curious about) when they can see what a fabulous color/font/JavaScript combination some "designer" designed!
Thank god for Flash. How did we ever get along without it?
So I guess the folks at Hanna Barbera were geniuses as well, having done the same thing with Yogi Bear (the id), the Ranger (the superego) and poor little Boo Boo as the ego, caught between the immediacy of Yogi's desire for immediate gratification and the Ranger's attempts to enforce order.
Brilliant works of genius can be found in so many places!
I saw them in that one last December when I was checking all the Burger Kinds in the area for Reptar watches. BK's website makes it very easy to find them; it turns out that there were several within a few blocks of my employer that I didn't know about.
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>Does history remember the names of art critics? NO.
Uhh, yes. People who care deeply about art know that throughout the history of the written word, certain people who weren't artists themselves played an important role in getting the people around them to appreciate new kinds of artwork that was being developed. From Vasari to Cocteau to Clement Greenburg and Calvin Tompkins, there've been a lot of people writing about art (i.e. "art critics") who may be currently alive or may be long dead and gone, but who are still read and appreciated and yes, remembered.
One thing that's interesting about the relationship of LISP and XML is that XSLT, the W3C standard for transforming XML in which stylesheets are expressed as specialized XML documents, is a great-grandchild of LISP. It's derived from DSSSL, an ISO standard for transforming and formatting SGML that no one used because of all the Silly Parentheses, and DSSSL was based Scheme. People have taken to XSLT more easily than to DSSSL because it's easier to read: when I see "" it's very clear to me exactly which structures are ending, even if I'm reading a hard copy of it, but when I see "))))" it's not always easy to tell which "(" goes with which ")" at a glance.
Bob DuCharme
See http://www.snee.com/bob/xsltquickly for info on upcoming "XSLT Quickly" from Manning Publications.
>LISP is a programming language. XML is a syntax.
More specifically, XML is a Markup Language (the "ML" in "XML"). That's why, when people call it a programming language, I tell them, "if it was a programming language, it would be called XPL!"
Bob DuCharme - see http://www.snee.com/bob/xsltquickly for
info on upcoming "XSLT Quickly" from Manning Publications.
fatbrain's ematter lets you publish an electronic edition of your book. You set the price, and when someone buys one from them, they take half the money and send you the rest, making a 50% royalty rate for the author.
They'll take Acrobat, Word, Postscript, or flat text files. For pages that look nice and can be viewed on multiple platforms, including Windows, without putting any money in Bill Gates' pocket, I'm sure Acrobat will fit the bill.
Bob DuCharme
www.snee.com/bob
Why, to show off his "design" skills. The colors, the fonts, the "interactivity" of that page--you're not thinking of the "total user experience"! Users want more than information from a web site; they want a, uhh, total user experience! And sensible users won't mind postponing access to the information they're after (or merely curious about) when they can see what a fabulous color/font/JavaScript combination some "designer" designed!
Thank god for Flash. How did we ever get along without it?
bobdc
So I guess the folks at Hanna Barbera were geniuses as well, having done the same thing with Yogi Bear (the id), the Ranger (the superego) and poor little Boo Boo as the ego, caught between the immediacy of Yogi's desire for immediate gratification and the Ranger's attempts to enforce order.
Brilliant works of genius can be found in so many places!
I saw them in that one last December when I was checking all the Burger Kinds in the area for Reptar watches. BK's website makes it very easy to find them; it turns out that there were several within a few blocks of my employer that I didn't know about.