Back in November, I mentioned that there was a markup language that seemed to be developing to deal with the complexities of cooking. Msr. Dagoski recently pointed out to me that someone has done the same sort of thing to help with the choreography of folk dances. Here’s the big quote from their website:
The goal of the CDML Project is to define a comprehensive formal language that describes contra dances and similar folkdances, can be read and understood by both software and humans, and can be extended.
Is that really what we need? Computers that know how to dance? Cooking I can understand. One of the staples of science fiction is the ability to walk into your kitchen, call out the the name of the dish you want, and then have the automated appliances serve up a batch of, for example, “Tea, Earl Grey, Hot.”
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