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Maybe a better question is, what would HTML have looked like in the time of Shakespeare? <doth whence="bæc">Forsooth!</doth>
by zarmin 5y ago
Maybe a better question is, what would HTML have looked like in the time of Shakespeare?
<doth whence="bæc">Forsooth!</doth>
- KingFelix 5y agobrilliant!
- _jstreet 5y agoTIL: There's a "Shakespeare" esoteric programming language. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare_Programming_Language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare_Programming_Langua...
- macintux 5y agoIt’s generated occasional commentary here, but not recently. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7639119 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7639119 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4910622 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4910622 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1415528 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1415528 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3172021 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3172021
- runarberg 5y agoI’d like to think HTML would have used different notation for syntax e.g. the section sign for open tags and pilcrow for closing: §doth whence="bæc"§ Forsooth! ¶doth¶
- divbzero 5y agoAnd written in secretary hand [1] instead of monospace. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_hand https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_hand
- chrisweekly 5y agoHaha, reminds me of "If Hemingway Wrote JavaScript" https://www.amazon.com/Hemingway-Wrote-JavaScript-Angus-Croll/dp/1593275854/ref=nodl_# https://www.amazon.com/Hemingway-Wrote-JavaScript-Angus-Crol... which is actually kind of amusing and creative.
- zarmin 5y agoI love this!!
- brian_herman 5y agoThis is awesome.
- TedDoesntTalk 5y agoIs this book worthwhile?
- bloopernova 5y agoHoly Carp and Salmon, that's great! This Shakespeare JavaScript is fantastic and I want to write all my comments in this style: https://imgur.com/gallery/IKlBAX0 https://imgur.com/gallery/IKlBAX0 EDIT: huh, imgur removes the word "javascript" from post titles and descriptions. Weird that they couldn't find a better way to stop javascript attacks.
- selcuka 5y agoNot only comments. You can write your whole program in Shakespeare Programming Language: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare_Programming_Language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare_Programming_Langua...
- JadeNB 5y agoI was going to say (as if that were the main objection) that the = there was apocryphal, but I had my centuries wrong: Recorde invented it in the mid-16th century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equals_sign#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equals_sign#History I wonder when angle braces were introduced?
- runarberg 5y agoThis table on Wikipedia says the inequality symbols were first used in 1631[1]. However guillemets (« ») date to the mid sixteenth century[2] and are still used as quotation marks in many languages. Although according to the page about brackets[3], chevrons were the earliest form of brackets, however I couldn’t find a year. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_mathematical_symbols_by_introduction_date https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_mathematical_symbols_... 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillemet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillemet 3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bracket#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bracket#History
- zarmin 5y agoActually, as an assignment operator it dates back thousands of years: let there = light # fix dark issue
- User23 5y agoRecorde is one of those intellectual heroes I only learned of a few years ago. It seems like no big deal now, but using a symbol instead of words to represent am equation was revolutionary.
- mkl 5y ago> apocryphal I think you mean anachronistic there.
- JadeNB 5y agoYes, thank you.
- cushychicken 5y agoThis is the best HN comment I've seen in a while, ha!
- theshadowknows 5y ago:)