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Jun 19, 2021 at 18:31
Printers increasingly speak a standardised protocol, making it feasible to support printers without any drivers at all!
Fedora contemplates the driverless printing future
Back in a distant time — longer ago than he cares to admit — your editor managed a system-admin [...]

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Jul 2, 2018 at 20:43
Syntactic Closures by Bawden amd Rees: https://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf&AD=ADA195921 This 1988 paper explores an alternative Scheme macro system before hygienic macros were standardised.
Mar 18, 2016 at 22:52
CommonMark, the community standardised fork of markdown, is investigating adding extensible syntax!
Generic directives/plugins syntax
Generic directives/plugins syntax
This is a proposal for a generic syntax to accommodate custom directives/plugins, which is as simple and markdown-like as possible while still accommodating a lot of use cases. While not enabling all markdown extensions (e.g. tables, custom linebreak behaviour etc. doesn’t really fit the template), it works for a lot of them. There are three different kinds of directives: Inline, start with one colon (analogous to spans) Leaf block, start with two colons (analogous to empty divs) Containe...
Jul 24, 2015 at 22:01
Aha, great to see that ENSI have standardised the BF language to give compiler writers maximum flexibility! http://t.co/aHoMcyDJxv