...primary source: """I do not claim to have invented JSON. I claim only that I discovered it. It existed in nature. I identified it, gave it a name, and showed how it was useful. I never claimed to be the first to have discovered JSON. I made my discovery in the spring of 2001. There were other developers who were using it 2000."""
I see value in this semi-simplistic representation of DEC64, and to respond to a peer comment, consider "DEC64-norm", where non-normalized representations are "illegal" or must be tainted/tagged/parsed like UTF-8 before processing.
His other "useful" contribution which I lament not seeing anywhere else is "The Crockford Keyboard" another "near-discovery" of existing useful properties in an endemic standard (the English alphabet): https://www.crockford.com/keyboard.html
I really wish that the X-Box onscreen keyboard used this layout! You could imagine that if you could "hot-key" back to the left row (vowels), and have "tab-complete" (ie: shift-tab/tab) it could be a pretty comfortable typing experience compared to the existing "let's copy QWERTY(?!)".
...I feel him as a kindred spirit of pragmatism and complexity reduction (which necessarily) introduces more complexity since we live in a world where complicated things exist. Compared to IEEE floating point numbers, this DEC64 or "Number()" type seems like a breath of fresh air (apart from normalization, as mentioned!).
...primary source: """I do not claim to have invented JSON. I claim only that I discovered it. It existed in nature. I identified it, gave it a name, and showed how it was useful. I never claimed to be the first to have discovered JSON. I made my discovery in the spring of 2001. There were other developers who were using it 2000."""
I see value in this semi-simplistic representation of DEC64, and to respond to a peer comment, consider "DEC64-norm", where non-normalized representations are "illegal" or must be tainted/tagged/parsed like UTF-8 before processing.
His other "useful" contribution which I lament not seeing anywhere else is "The Crockford Keyboard" another "near-discovery" of existing useful properties in an endemic standard (the English alphabet): https://www.crockford.com/keyboard.html
I really wish that the X-Box onscreen keyboard used this layout! You could imagine that if you could "hot-key" back to the left row (vowels), and have "tab-complete" (ie: shift-tab/tab) it could be a pretty comfortable typing experience compared to the existing "let's copy QWERTY(?!)".
...I feel him as a kindred spirit of pragmatism and complexity reduction (which necessarily) introduces more complexity since we live in a world where complicated things exist. Compared to IEEE floating point numbers, this DEC64 or "Number()" type seems like a breath of fresh air (apart from normalization, as mentioned!).