BLOG: Digital Financial Reporting
This is a blog for information relating to digital financial reporting. This blog is basically my "lab notebook" for experimenting and learning about XBRL-based digital financial reporting. This is my brain storming platform. This is where I think out loud (i.e. publicly) about digital financial reporting. This information is for innovators and early adopters who are ushering in a new era of accounting, reporting, auditing, and analysis in a digital environment.
Much of the information contained in this blog is synthasized, summarized, condensed, better organized and articulated in my book XBRL for Dummies and in the chapters of Intelligent XBRL-based Digital Financial Reporting. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me.
Entries from April 18, 2021 - April 24, 2021
Google's New Logica Language
Google has created a new open source languge called Logica that is a dialect of Datalog. Recall that Datalog is a very safe dialect of Prolog. Prolog (which is an ISO standard) is one of the three primary problem solving logic paradigms, logic programming. You can download Logica here on Github.
This InfoWorld article, Google's Logica language addresses SQL's flaws, says that "Logica solves problems of SQL by using syntax of mathematical logic rather than natural English language."
This SDTimes article, Google unveils logic programming language: Logica, “Logica brings readability and good engineering practices common for languages like Python, C++, Java etc. to your queries.”
This is excellent news! As I see it, Logica is a vote of confidence for modern PROLOG.



