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S-expression HTML as Standard

Name: Anonymous 2013-09-17 13:25

Who the fuck thought it would be a good idea to use opening and closing tags as DA STANDARD for SHITML? Are the people at W3 dumb?

For those who don't know what I'm talking about,
look how ugly and unnecessarily long HTML is.

<html>
<head>MY WEBSITE</head>
<title>MY WEBSITE</title>
<body>
<p>THIS KIND OF MARKUP IS <b><i><u>SHIT QUALITY</u></i></b></p>
</body>
</html>


But compared to the S-expressions

(html (head "MY WEBSITE")
(title "MY WEBSITE")
(body (p "THIS MARKUP IS" (b.i.u "SATORI QUALITY"))))


It looks far cleaner and makes your eyes feel right at home. It's easier to parse and won't take up as a few kilobytes / megabytes (depending on the page) less Internet bandwidth. Sure it has a lot of parenthesis but it's more attractive than the repeating shitstorm of </tags>.

I know there are a lot of implementations to this but there should be one STANDARD to rule them all. The next version of HTML in the standard should be something like this.

Name: Anonymous 2015-11-03 21:58

>>71
I never said HTML or Javascript is superior (believe me, I hate the web just as much as you fags). But there are people ITT bemoaning Tim Berners-Lee, Eich, and Netscape for not giving us the pure Lisp web from the start, and I'm just saying that the web probably would have never taken off if they had designed it that way. It probably would have been supplanted by some ugly corporate Java AIDS that ex-C++ programmers and Bobby making his first webpage would find more intuitive.

And yeah, I know no one writes straight HTML anymore, but they sure as hell still write Javascript. And even today the web appers would probably be scared away by the sexps.

Name: Anonymous 2015-11-03 22:51

>>73
Do you not think that web appers are just comfortable with that shit because it's what they've been using all these years? As in, if javascript was a lisp dialect in the first place, nothing else would be different. In that universe, web appers might be scared away by braces and K&R indentation.

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