Well, here's the puzzler for me: Why is CSS an entirely different syntax than JSON or even HTML?
Fail! I guess Sass/Less may get close, as well as CoffeeKup http://coffeekup.org/ which just sez: WTF, lets just mash them all up, no prob. I would like a markdown equivalent to CSS. Seriously. Could anyone think about it a bit and suggest how it'd go? JSON is the closest I can get. -- Owen On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Steve Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > Josh sed: > >> Also surprised Owen hasn't brought Markdown into the mix here. Seems >> like the perfect ASCII/monospace style for meaningful formatting. >> >> The nice thing about "standards" is we have so many to choose from! - > Andy Tanenbaum ( > http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/**Andrew_S._Tanenbaum<http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Andrew_S._Tanenbaum>) > > Markdown: > > http://daringfireball.net/**projects/markdown/index.text<http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/index.text> > > It strikes me as somewhat less awkward than HTML for *reading* and just > about like Wiki markup and not that different from the more-specialized > formats that support Javadoc or Doxygen. I'd love to see a taxonomic chart > of the myriad formal language specs out there. If not the "tower of > Babel" then perhaps the Cambrian Explosion? > > Here we go on the rant! > > There is a reason that the CS/CE community has the idiom "Yet Another". > Nothing (anyone else has done) is ever good enough for us, so we analyze > what has been done down to the gnats ass, pick a couple of distinguishing > characteristics and then conjure a *whole new system* that meets this > slightly different set of requirements. > > "Little Jack Horner sat in a corner eating his christmas pie. He stuck > in his thumb, pulled out a plum, and said 'Oh what a good boy am I!'" > > Referencing the Cambrian Explosion, this might very well be what is going > on both with text formatting and Google. Evolution seems to depend more on > draconian *pruning* than on speciation, though I guess they go hand in > hand. Google's aggressive pruning of it's own services (up to and > including the Nexus 4 and it's more demanding bleeding-edge "fans", now > fondly known as "Dougs"?) is just part of the froth of "life itself" > climbing the entropy gradient, expelling sub-optimal designs as "reaction > mass" to maintain steady acceleration up that slippery slope. > > I guess I consider minimally formatted (caps, punctuation, spaces, LF/CR) > a pidgen ( > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Pidgin<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pidgin>) > lingua franca ( > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Lingua_franca<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingua_franca>)... > and the additional markup like my own favorite *bold* and _italics_ > or "scare quotes" and SHOUTING just a little extra color and spice in the > lingo, dontcha kno mon! My understanding/belief of culture and language > is that the interfaces between peoples of different cultures where such > pidgen languages thrive represent a great deal of richness and complexity > *because* they are so simple and context-dependent. It seems as if most of > us here are yearning for our favorite _pidgen_ to become a proper _Creole_ > ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Creole<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creole>). > > Of course I could be wrong, that's just my opinion! > > - Steve > > > > > ==============================**============================== > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe > http://redfish.com/mailman/**listinfo/friam_redfish.com<http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com> >
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