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Sir, Please Step Away from the ASR-33!: To move forward with programming languages we need to break free from the tyranny of ASCII.

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One of the naughty details of my Varnish software is that the configuration is written in a domain-specific language that is converted into C source code, compiled into a shared library, and executed at hardware speed. That obviously makes me a programming language syntax designer, and just as obviously I have started to think more about how we express ourselves in these syntaxes.

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  1. Sir, Please Step Away from the ASR-33!: To move forward with programming languages we need to break free from the tyranny of ASCII.

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          ISSN:1542-7730
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          DOI:10.1145/1866296
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