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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: http://lambdaway.free.fr/lambdawalks/ http://lambdaway.free.fr/lambdawalks/
In lambdatalk such a HTML code
<h1>Page Title</h1>
<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.
Ut ac lorem ut massa euismod vestibulum.
<p>Nullam rutrum blandit eleifend. Aenean a varius diam.
Morbi sodales velit nunc, vel vestibulum lorem tempus sodales.
is written like this
_h1 Page Title
_p Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Ut ac lorem ut massa euismod vestibulum.
_p Nullam rutrum blandit eleifend. Aenean a varius diam. Morbi sodales velit nunc, vel vestibulum lorem tempus sodales.
And you can also compute 3x4 writing {x 3 4} or compute the factorial of 100, compute a Fast Fourier Transform, draw complex graphics, ... it's a true programming language with a coherent syntax, unlike Markdown.