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It's said that the father of LISP, John McCarthy, lamented the W3C's choice of SGML as the basis for HTML : « An environment where the markup, styling and scrip
by martyalain 4y ago
It's said that the father of LISP, John McCarthy, lamented the W3C's choice of SGML as the basis for HTML : « An environment where the markup, styling and scripting is all s-expression based would be nice. » The {lambda way} project could be an answer, small and simple, a minimal enhanced text-editor: http://lambdaway.free.fr/lambdawalks/ http://lambdaway.free.fr/lambdawalks/
- capableweb 4y agoEvery lisp (s-expressions really) fan would say most syntaxes/languages would be nicer if they were expressed in s-expressions instead of the c-like aberration most language copy, myself included. I guess McCarthy was simply the first to express that sentiment :)