HTML is all you need to make a website

Re:HTML is all you need to make a website by martyalain on Thursday November 17, 2022 @02:51PM (#33644613)

It's said that the father of LISP, John McCarthy, the father of LISP, 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. »

Following John McCarthy, this HTML <b><i><u>Hello World</u></i></b> could have been written {b {i {u Hello World}}} and {* 1 2 3 4 5 6} could have been evaluated to 720. For instance: http://lambdaway.free.fr/lambdawalks

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Re:HTML is all you need to make a website by onion2k on Thursday November 17, 2022 @04:45PM (#33646251)

<b><i><u>Hello World</u></i></b> could have been written {b {i {u Hello World}}}

I think that would be awesome now using a modern IDE with great syntax highlighting and block editing. Back in 1997 when I was writing HTML in notepad.exe I think it would have been a bit less fun. Seeing the closing tag was incredibly useful.

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Re:HTML is all you need to make a website by monista on Friday November 18, 2022 @07:39PM (#33665226)

Now, with all the <div><div><div><div>div</div></div></div>s in doesn't look so useful ...

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Re:HTML is all you need to make a website by spc476 on Thursday November 17, 2022 @05:27PM (#33646806)

How verbose. You should do {b.i.u Hello World} [1] instead.

[1] https://corebloc.neocities.org/sexpcode.html

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Re:HTML is all you need to make a website by martyalain on Thursday November 17, 2022 @10:15PM (#33649588)

Cool! How do you sexpcode more complex things like:

- http://lambdaway.free.fr/lambdawalks/?view=sierpinsky_compar...

- http://lambdaway.free.fr/lambdawalks/?view=fft

- http://lambdaway.free.fr/lambdawalks/?view=scratch

- and so on

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