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> In the beginning, there was HTML, and it was good. No, it's really not. It is excessively verbose for human usage, and too loose for computer usage. It's a
by eadmund 5y ago
> In the beginning, there was HTML, and it was good.
No, it's really not. It is excessively verbose for human usage, and too loose for computer usage. It's a hack.
For human usage, Markdown is pretty decent. For computer usage, an S-expression–based HTML would have been preferable:
(html
(head (title "Hello world!")
(meta ((http-equiv content-type)
(content text/html)
(charset utf-8))))
(body ((bgcolor white))
(h1 "Hello world!")
(p "This is my first webpage.")))