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Re:That people produce HTML with string templates is telling... by spacesuitman2 on Friday May 26, 2023 @08:15AM (#36083086)
>I don't have any particular answers to why string templating has been enduringly popular so far (although I can come up with theories, including that string templating is naturally reusable to other contexts, such as plain text).

This sounds similar to the concept of narrow waists: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30483914

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Re:That people produce HTML with string templates is telling... by ummonk on Friday May 26, 2023 @01:14PM (#36086983)
Clicked on that expecting it to be an article about how corsets remained popular with women in the Victorian and Edwardian eras even as doctors kept recommending against them.
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