I really like the design of this HTTP library's API and will probably try it out in personal projects in the future: https://gitlab.com/honeyryderchuck/httpx#httpx-a-ruby-http-library-for-tomorrow-and-beyond … (You get parallel requests "for free" without having to muck up your code a lot or implement promises/event loops/etc.) h/t HN
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When I think of language HTTP design I remember something one of my professors wrote way back in *1997*: If a main task of programmers is accessing the Internet then the language design should support generating HTTP requests about as naturally as it does addition.pic.twitter.com/QrsWD3N7JX
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c.f. https://web.archive.org/web/20130808233953/http://www.wra1th.plus.com/awk/awkfri.txt … for the whole memo, which was designed to convince schools principally teaching Java that their undergrads should be taught scripting languages (for AI specifically, Dr. Loui's specialty, but argument generalizes).
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random nitpick — it should be “cf.” (no period after the c), short for “confer,” meaning “compare” in Latin. I used to think it was just some fancy way to say “see [reference]” but it really isn’t
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Huh. Seems like I have *quickly greps* 371 incorrect usages of that in my writing. *sigh* Thanks; the more you know. (If it were a true nitpick I'd say "In this house we're linguistic descriptivists!" but this feels like "not errored enough into correctness yet.")
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