1. String processing in general. Processing strings of characters is one of the oldest application of mechanical computers, arguably predating numerical computation by at least fifty years. As a delimited string, where the end of a string is marked by a special character.
Taylor Goldsmith is the lead singer, guitarist and primary songwriter for the Los Angeles-based folk rock band Dawes. Courtesy photo | Dawes' ongoing 50-city tour includes stops this weekend at the Fox Theater in Boulder and at Belly Up Aspen.
And there's been plenty of steam, too: The quartet, consisting of brothers Taylor and Griffin Goldsmith, Wylie Gelber and Tay Strathairn, has rode the wave of favorable publicity and positive response from their impassioned live performances -- to the point where their upcoming sophomore album, Nothing is Wrong (coming in June via ATO Records), can officially be deemed as eagerly anticipated.