http://ripple.fortytwo.net Semantic Web Scripting Language Sat, 08 Aug 2009 18:57:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This post will introduce Ripple's application and regular expression syntax. The very first releases of Ripple (as in the screencast) included a single, infix symbol, "/" for the application of mappings. For example, to map the numbers 2 and 3 to their sum, you would have used (2 ... http://ripple.fortytwo.net/2009/04/29/arrows-and-regex/ Right. Blog. Keyboard. Fingers. Just start typing. So, I needed to take a screen capture of the Ripple command line for a presentation yesterday, and was a little embarrassed by this old and awkward formatting: 1 >> :timbl >> foaf:knows >> foaf:name >> . rdf:_1 ... http://ripple.fortytwo.net/2009/04/08/prettifying-the-command-line/ Alright, so I'm not much of a blogger. I suppose that's obvious by now. Nonetheless, the subject of this very neglected blog, the Ripple language, has come a long way in the last seven-and-a-half months. Ripple is now used commercially, which has driven its development in new and interesting directions. ... http://ripple.fortytwo.net/2008/04/17/ripples-not-dead/ This is the first software release for Ripple since its debut at ESWC last June. While the syntax and computational model of of the language have not changed, the implementation contains a lot of new material in its libraries, and also makes better use of Java concurrency, speeding up ... http://ripple.fortytwo.net/2007/09/01/ripple-04-released/