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I'm quite fond of DataWeave for this, as an FP-inspired data transformation language with plenty of built-ins, including support for XML, JSON and beyond [0].

Apparently there's an online playground [1] and Beta support for LSP now [2]. I've only ever used it in a containerized-Java setting.

[0]: https://mjdresdner.medium.com/dataweave-2-x-playground-comin...

[1]: http://dwlang.fun/

[2]: https://github.com/mulesoft-labs/data-weave-language-server

For those unfamiliar, Knuth's versioning scheme approaches pi and therefore never reaches 4.0 [0]

> In his seminal text layout system, TeX, and his equally brilliant typeface design system, METAFONT, Donald uses a versioning number system that asymptotically approaches perfection. The version numbers of TeX approach π (the current version is 3.14159265) and the version numbers of METAFONT approach e.

[0] http://sentimentalversioning.org/

It's one thing to allow enough time to pass before a given theory/experiment can be considered as "accepted" by science, and therefore eligible to the award.

However, the Nobel committee's rules can be considered archaic to a fault: 3 winners at most, all winners must be living at the time of the award.

If you want an egregious example of exclusion, look at the 2013 Nobel prize for the discovery of the Higgs boson. The prize was given to Higgs and Englert [0], but by any measure it should have been awarded to the five living scientists who made the discovery [1].

Was there really any reason to exclude Guralnik, Hagen and Kibble, who were all alive at the time of the award, other than a strict adherence to the "rule of three"?

[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20131008193310/http://www.nobelp...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_PRL_symmetry_breaking_pap...