{"id":38,"date":"2006-05-02T06:55:33","date_gmt":"2006-05-02T11:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alarmingdevelopment.org\/?p=38"},"modified":"2006-05-02T06:59:02","modified_gmt":"2006-05-02T11:59:02","slug":"plan-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alarmingdevelopment.org\/?p=38","title":{"rendered":"Plan A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The comments on Plan B have changed my mind (a rare occurrence in the blogosphere). <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The problem Subtext faces is that programming languages are boxed in by convention. When you say &#8220;Programming Language&#8221;, people assume you mean strings of symbols to be compiled into a program. There is a massive background of theory, practice,  and technology wrapped up in that conventional meaning. Subtext is outside that box. Some things about Subtext would play well as a modeling language. But when you say &#8220;Modeling Language&#8221;, people assume you mean &#8220;informal whiteboard diagrams&#8221;, which is just a different ill-suited box. Some people in the modeling community believe that separating software design from implementation is profitable (for several of the meanings of profitable). I disagree.<\/p>\n<p>Subtext is and will always be about building things that actually work. That makes it a programming language. Adding modeling concepts to Subtext may be a good idea, particularly data-modeling concepts. But I should stay true to the vision of making a better programming language, which is Plan A.<\/p>\n<p>Forgive me for straying from the path of righteousness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The comments on Plan B have changed my mind (a rare occurrence in the blogosphere).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfEnU-C","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alarmingdevelopment.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alarmingdevelopment.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alarmingdevelopment.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alarmingdevelopment.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alarmingdevelopment.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alarmingdevelopment.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alarmingdevelopment.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alarmingdevelopment.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alarmingdevelopment.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}