On 2011-06-29 22:07, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
"Jacob Carlborg"<d...@me.com> wrote in message
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On 2011-06-29 10:29, Walter Bright wrote:
On 6/28/2011 11:46 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
I think it makes it hard when most of the pages are written in DDOC.
It doesn't
help to attract web designers.
I have no idea what professional web designers use, but I did many web
pages using html in a regular text editor.
It was awful.
That *is* awful. I use Ruby on Rails with the following languages (and
what they compile to):
HAML -> HTML
SASS -> CSS
CoffeeScript -> JavaScript
And Ruby of course.
I wouldn't mind switching to some "compile down to HTML/CSS/etc" thing, but
all the mature ones I've seen seem to place a strong emphasis on
whitespace-syntax which is something I can't stand. YAML's about the only
place I can really tolerate it (at least in large part because it's purely
optional, and because it's purely a data language (but then, so are HTML and
CSS)). And then there's some other rediculous thing CoffeeScript does...umm,
IIRC, I think it's implicit declarations.
All of the above languages (except Ruby) use indentation for scopes.
"implicit declarations" do you mean that you don't have to declare a
variable before you use it? In that case, Ruby has that as well.
Comparing, for example, HAML and HTML, I think that HAML looks cleaner
than HTML.
Anyway, I like them. First I didn't either like whitespace aware
languages but in these cases I like it. But I would never want it in D.
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/Jacob Carlborg
