1 yr. ago • 94%

Yes, I program in HTML

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I recently had to work with XSLT (may it's inventor burn in hell for their crimes).

That's pretty much programming in XML. It's probably the worst possible thing.

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- XSLT is fine
  
  If you have a program generate it
  
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  Sadly, it was done manually. I had to migrate it to this brand new bleeding edge technology, Apache Velocity. That's not great either, but it's much less terrible than XSLT.
  
  For that task I had to learn two templating languages at the same time to port it from one to the other. Wasn't an easy task.
  
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  Pff. I know someone who generated programs using XSLT.
  
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  I totally know that feeling :)
  
  Well, in the 90s, XML was the future. Luckily, not a lot of this future remains.
  
  Just imagine what HTML would be like if JSON had been available back then.
  
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- Can't even imagine. I've got fed up by the short time I had to configure Maven in plain xml...
  
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  Is there another way?
  
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This is not HTML. It isn't even XML. It's not as bad as designers putting "code" into ads, but it's close.

Also, ever heard of XSLT?

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- I mean it's valid XML
  
  It's just not useful
  
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  It isn't valid XML. No root node.
  
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- Testing char escaping in Lemmy:
  
  \\
  
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- Putting code between backticks shows it as codeblocks and doesn't strip the symbols Hello <p>world
  
  View source to see the markup
  
  </p>
  
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- \
  
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This reminds me of Apple plist files, which appear to have been invented by someone that doesn't know how XML works.

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- Which is true for the majority of all XML files I've ever come across in the wild.
  
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  I think XML only makes sense if your data is heavily tree-like
  
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- What even are those?
  
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No.

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You should check out this new project, supposed to be twice as fast as HTML. It's called XHTML.

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- I thought that was the HTML used by Twitter.
  
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Which of these wonderful languages is this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category%3AXML-based_programming_languages

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I will never understand how XML came into being when lisp already existed.

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- I don't either)))))))))
  
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  (reminds (it (of (story me))))
  
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  https://xkcd.com/297/
  
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  Would you really rather see <\Foo> than )?
  
  There's a reason why most popular languages use } rather than end if or fi. The added verbosity doesn't actually help people read your code more than e.g. indentation or editors with paren matching or rainbow parens.
  
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Meanwhile in APL, you just 20 50 60 90, 10

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Who ever designed this deserves to be killed.

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What color theme is that?

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- Looks like Vampire.
  
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someone should make lisp but with html syntax

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