From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed1.bredband.com!bredband!uio.no!nntp.uio.no!ifi.uio.no!not-for-mail From: Erik Naggum Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: StudlyCaps Date: 13 Nov 2002 20:41:25 +0000 Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 27 Message-ID: <3246208885669993@naggum.no> References: <3DD20E0C.4@nyc.rr.com> <3DD28A83.4010902@nyc.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: maud.ifi.uio.no 1037220086 18716 129.240.65.205 (13 Nov 2002 20:41:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@ifi.uio.no NNTP-Posting-Date: 13 Nov 2002 20:41:26 GMT Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:46521 * Kenny Tilton | Interesting, I myself get distracted by all the hyphens. With Emacs, you can use whatever you like. Emacs is the only editor where WYSINWYG is a feature. Life would be hell if I had to look at HTML without the ability to convert it into a rational syntax upon reading from and back into the irrational upon writing to file. That this horrible XML crap has to be exchanged among morons and their software held me back from working with it for years, as the sheer displeasure of looking at the retarded syntax and its verbose end-tags an braindamaged attributes was enough to turn me off working with the Web. But if it is "only syntax", then it /is/ only syntax, and parsing it into something rational should not be a problem and I should be able to work with something pleasurable despite the massive lack of care for aesthetics in the language designer. I have come to prefer {} over <>, but whether to use \foo{} instead of {foo} is also a personal decision. So *TeX and *ML all look the same to me, and all the helper packages for Emacs that try so hard to parse these moronic syntaxes got it all wrong. A fool and his syntax should soon be parted. -- Erik Naggum, Oslo, Norway Act from reason, and failure makes you rethink and study harder. Act from faith, and failure makes you blame someone and push harder.