Programmer Humor @lemmy.ml frippa @lemmy.ml 1y ago

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.
- XSLT is fine
  
  If you have a program generate it
  
  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.
  
  Pff. I know someone who generated programs using XSLT.
- Can't even imagine. I've got fed up by the short time I had to configure Maven in plain xml...
  
  Is there another way?
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?
- I mean it's valid XML
  
  It's just not useful
  
  It isn't valid XML. No root node.
This reminds me of Apple plist files, which appear to have been invented by someone that doesn't know how XML works.
- Which is true for the majority of all XML files I've ever come across in the wild.
  
  I think XML only makes sense if your data is heavily tree-like
- What even are those?
You should check out this new project, supposed to be twice as fast as HTML. It's called XHTML.
- I thought that was the HTML used by Twitter.
No.
I will never understand how XML came into being when lisp already existed.
- I don't either)))))))))
  
  (reminds (it (of (story me))))
  
  https://xkcd.com/297/
  
  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.
Which of these wonderful languages is this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category%3AXML-based_programming_languages
Is it just me, or does the append statement not indicate where you are appending the "number" element to?
Meanwhile in APL, you just 20 50 60 90, 10
Who ever designed this deserves to be killed.
someone should make lisp but with html syntax
What color theme is that?
- Looks like Vampire.

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