/prog/ - 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 2015-11-05 0:58

>>74
This is the lie functional programmers and Lisp programmers have been telling themselves, that their respective languages never hit the mainstream through historical accident, that C-like languages won through a "worse is better" approach, and that there's a self-reinforcing cycle of unfamiliarity.

Not so, the languages are shit. They at best let you write passable code if you manage to simulate some of the mutability of good languages, but any sufficiently large project will inevitably boil down to a sticky macro and/or operator soup.

S-expression HTML as Standard

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