GIGO: words unreadable aloud

Lavender, Matanzas, JWIG, MAWL, Scottish PL Seminar, Book of Sand

Deb and I spent a wonderful weekend in the North Bay's wine country. Stayed in Santa Rosa, visited Napa for a ride on the Napa Valley Wine Train, tasted some wonderful wines, spent an afternoon at Matanzas Vineyard's incredible Lavender Festival (highlights: the lavender fields themselves; the strawberry-lavender gelato; the 1996 "Journey" Merlot).

Now there's a few new (to me) things to read:

JWIG, the successor to bigwig, a "Java-based development system for making advanced Web services. It integrates the central features of the bigwig language into Java by providing explicit support for Web service sessions and safe XHTML dynamic document construction."
MAWL ... from Bell Labs (YES! They do still exist!) ... is "an application-oriented language for producing complex form-based services in a device-independent manner. Mawl separates specification of service logic from specification of the user interface to be presented on a device. This allows for both fast prototyping of new services as well as the easy integration of new user interfaces."
Phil Wadler's summary of the Scottish Programming Languages Seminar leads to a number of things worth following up;
and Dave Herman mentioned that Mitchell Wand refers to the "ever-growing list of references worth pursuing" as The Book of Sand. You're welcome to consider that a self reference.

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