An enormous amount of data can be conveniently represented as a labelled tree. This is the basis of many markup languages such as SGML, XML, HTML, and others. Herein I propose an alternative, Labelled S-Expressions and provide code for a working parser in C++.

I have devised a simple mark-up scheme for my own purposes which is much simpler than XML.

A very important programming principle is that of separation of concerns. A class should have one clearly defined responsibility. When this is violated problems arise, for instance in the STL.

Most web-browsers today come with EcmaScript ( ie. JavaScript) built-in. Did you know another very powerful language came with Internet Explorer and Firefox?

I just wrote a small open-source JavaScript tokenizer that outputs XML. Here is why you might be interested.

I frequently encounter open-source code which reimplements code which exists elsewhere (and usually does so badly). When everyone is busy reinventing the wheel, no one has the time to build a cart.

I need to use the collective-consciousness of the Artima community, like genetic algorithms, to come up with a set of canonical use cases for generics.

I was poking around in the Standard Java Libraries looking for examples of generic code, and came across something curious.

Up until now, whenever I've tried open-source Word clones with my books, they've collapsed to the floor, babbling and drooling.

More and more programmers and researchers have been suggesting heresies along the lines of "programmers should only work with a view of source code, not the source itself".

In my posting "Mixins: Something Else You Can't Do With Java Generics?", someone suggested (incorrectly) that this was just the C++ "Curiously Recurring Template Pattern." The analog of the CRTP does work in Java, but is it good for anything?

Someone pointed out that Josh Bloch suggests using interfaces to produce the effects of mixins; this is a common pointer when justifying the lack of multiple inheritance in Java. I've translated yesterday's C++ mixin example based on this idea.

The paper "A First-Class Approach to Genericity" introduces the idea of the mixin, which seems to be quite a powerful concept, and then shows that you can't do it with Java generics. I wonder if anyone has any alternative approaches to this problem.

In which, against my better judgement, I try to figure out what everyone means when they talk about XML...

The Lua programming language is an extension programming language, which holds special interest to me and anyone who is implementing any kind of interpreter.