{"id":974,"date":"2002-06-19T09:18:37","date_gmt":"2002-06-19T13:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=974"},"modified":"2002-06-19T09:18:37","modified_gmt":"2002-06-19T13:18:37","slug":"narrow-road-to-the-deep-shit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=974","title":{"rendered":"Narrow road to the deep shit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Cringely<\/p>\n\n<p>Now Dash-O no<\/p>\n\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nThis turns out to be entirely serious, though I still don&#8217;t know whether to laugh as loudly as I have been doing. What it&#8217;s about is the need for large companies to be sure that their code can be hidden, even when it&#8217;s published &mdash; in this case to a Java machine.<\/p>\n\n<p>Note that Perl has this mechanism built in. This makes me all the more admiring of the people who built <a href=\"http:\/\/www.movabletype.org\/about.shtml\">Movable Type<\/a>, on which I am writing this, inPerl. It&#8217;s the most elegant piece of web software I have ever used.<\/p>\n\n<p>It works, too, which makes a nice change after a long morning trying to book a quick trip to San Francisco, and finding that the only flights for less than <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Cringely Now Dash-O no <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=974\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}