Snip!t from collection of Alan Dix

Ripple is a dedicated scripting language for the <a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/SW-FAQ">Semantic Web</a><img src="http://ripple.fortytwo.net/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/zlinks/imgs/mini_rdf.gif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1px; cursor: pointer;" onmouseover="assignPopup(this, 'http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/SW-FAQ', 'http://ripple.fortytwo.net/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/zlinks/');" border="0">. Ripple programs not only query the Semantic Web, but also reside within it as RDF data structures, forming a global network of interlinked programs. Ripple is best classified as a <em>relational stack language</em>, closely related to <em>functional</em> stack languages such as <a href="http://www.latrobe.edu.au/philosophy/phimvt/joy.html" title="Joy programming language">Joy</a><img src="http://ripple.fortytwo.net/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/zlinks/imgs/mini_rdf.gif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1px; cursor: pointer;" onmouseover="assignPopup(this, 'http://www.latrobe.edu.au/philosophy/phimvt/joy.html', 'http://ripple.fortytwo.net/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/zlinks/');" border="0">, <a href="http://factorcode.org/" title="Factor programming language">Factor</a><img src="http://ripple.fortytwo.net/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/zlinks/imgs/mini_rdf.gif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1px; cursor: pointer;" onmouseover="assignPopup(this, 'http://factorcode.org/', 'http://ripple.fortytwo.net/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/zlinks/');" border="0"> and <a href="http://www.cat-language.com/" title="Cat programming language">Cat</a><img src="http://ripple.fortytwo.net/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/zlinks/imgs/mini_rdf_annotated.gif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1px; cursor: pointer;" onmouseover="assignPopup(this, 'http://www.cat-language.com/', 'http://ripple.fortytwo.net/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/zlinks/');" border="0">. As a Semantic Web interface, Ripple is a fast, text-based <a href="http://linkeddata.org/">linked data</a><img src="http://ripple.fortytwo.net/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/zlinks/imgs/mini_rdf.gif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1px; cursor: pointer;" onmouseover="assignPopup(this, 'http://linkeddata.org/', 'http://ripple.fortytwo.net/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/zlinks/');" border="0"> crawler and browser with all of the flexibility of a Turing-complete programming language.