John Cowan (computer scientist)

John Woldemar Cowan is an American computer scientist known for work with XML and Unicode. Cowan is an alumnus member of the Unicode Consortium,[1] and was an editor of the XML 1.1 specification.[2]

He is currently the chair of the working group defining the R7RS Large standard of the Scheme programming language.[3]

Cowan has revised William Strunk's The Elements of Style (now in the public domain). His revisions are "founded on the principle that rules of usage and style cannot be drawn out of thin air, nor constructed a priori according to logic; they must depend on the actual practice of those who are generally acknowledged to be good writers".[4]

References

  1. ↑ The Unicode Consortium: “The Unicode Consortium Members" http://www.unicode.org/consortium/memblogo.html (accessed 24 October 2013)
  2. ↑ World Wide Web Consortium: "Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.1 (Second Edition)" http://www.w3.org/TR/xml11/ (accessed 24 October 2013)
  3. ↑ scheme-reports.org: "Scheme Working Group 2" http://scheme-reports.org/2012/working-group-2.html (accessed 24 October 2013)
  4. ↑ William Strunk, Jr, and John Woldemar Cowan, The Elements of Style, 2006–2008. On Cowan's website.

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