Friday, May 04, 2007

Jon Udell is onto something

In an article about tagging, Jon speculates tagging may be the beginning of a model for programming that most people might be able to grasp.  He's probably on to something.

There is a trend towards declarative programming, and you don't have to look very far to see it:

  • Aspect-oriented programming
  • Semantic Web
  • Attributes in Java and .NET, preceded by descriptors in J2EE
  • Microformats