Utmost Simplicity

"To get portable data, you need to pick a representation that is usable in most programming languages" "To get portable behavior, you need a maintainable program standard that runs on most computer systems" "If something can be derived, store it as a function instead of a variable" "There should be a single 'source of truth'"

Simplest Controllers

RegExp
Excel Formulas
Recursion
RewriteRule
SetEnv/UnsetEnv/PassEnv
CSSOM
SMIL
toJSON
WPAD
XML Processing Instruction

Simplest Stylesheets

https://www.w3.org/StyleSheets/base.css

Simplest HTML

Simplest Specification

Hypertext Application Language (HAL)

Simplest Domain Specific Language (DSL)

Example Script: 
  create Vendor IBM
	 id 'IBM'
	 salesperson 'S1'
	 discount	10.0

  Translates Into:
	<script>
	 
		IBM
		S1
		10.0
	 
	</script>

Simplest Message Passing

Imperative

if (x == 7 && y == 7)

Declarative

select * from x, y where num = 7

Interrogative

var num = new Map(); num.set({7:"x,y"}, num.foo) num.get({7:"x,y"})

Imperative

if (num.hasOwnProperty(7)) { num.foo = Function; num.toJSON = num.foo }

Declarative

var num = {7:"x,y", toJSON: num.foo};

Interrogative

num.has(7) && num.has(toJSON) && num.size()

Imperative

Bring back real hiphop

Declarative

Hiphop is dead

Interrogative

Who killed hiphop?

Narrative

Back in the day...

Authoritative

Only God Can Judge Me

Imperative

Array.push/Array.pop/Array.sort/Array.join

Declarative

Array.concat/Array.from

Interrogative

Array.indexOf / Array.some / Array.every

Imperative

Set.add / Set.delete / Set.clear

Declarative

new Set()

Interrogative

Set.has / Set.size /

Narrative

RegExp

Authoritatize

Object.defineProperty

WHO CAN COME AFTER HIM?

Variables - RegExp / XPath /xsl:variable (Every variable is a query result) $scope.href = function(){ if(/1/.test($scope.template.name) === true) {return 'http://example.com';} else {return 'http://ietf.org';} };

Templating - SSI/ESI

Data Binding - Excel / URI Templating

Theming - Image Maps / fonts / data:URIs

Debugging - Greasemonkey / eval

Coding - Emmet / JSLint / XHTML5

Documenting - Markdown

Visualizing - HTML5 Canvas