APTROW

APTROW stands for Advanced Programming Technology Read-Only Webification. It's my attempted solution to the problem: How can we get advanced programming languages (and other advanced programming technologies) into the "Enterprise"?

My proposed answer, very briefly, is:

• Use advanced programming technologies to write read-only applications. By limiting the use of these technologies to read-only applications, many of the perceived risks of using unproven "bleeding-edge" technologies are avoided.
• It's not just the business data that can benefit from better viewing applications. Existing business applications are themselves a form of "data", often very complex and not very well organised.
• Use web concepts to enable easy integration between different read-only applications, and between read-only applications and read/write applications.
• Give every business object and every business application artefact it's own unique URI.

Which programming languages and technologies should be considered to be "advanced" or not is somewhat subjective. A good general guide is programming.reddit.com, in the sense that if there exists an advanced programming language or technology, of the kind that promises in some way to make programming "better", but which has not reached the stage of widespread commercial use, it will be mentioned there.

Some specific examples are: Haskell, OCaml, Prolog, Lisp, Mozart/Oz and Scala.

There are also the languages Python and Ruby, which could be regarded as being "advanced", but which have become at least somewhat "mainstream".

In the category of a "technology" but not a "language" we can include the development of Domain-Specific Languages, i.e. make up your own language that says whatever it is that you want to say (in whatever way you want to say it).

Articles

• APTROW: Advanced Programming Technology Read-Only Webification A detailed explanation of the concept and motivation for it.
• APTROW: A Partial Solution to the "Parallel Programmer" problem?