On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Bjartur Thorlacius <svartma...@gmail.com> wrote: > If someone wants to write ugly code we can't stop him. But what's > wrong with supporting handwritten HTML documentation? > I'm not proposing using autogenerated HTML recursively populated with > divs by JavaScript. The only argument in favor of roff is widespread > deplayment of groff. That's not enough reason to reject HTML > documentation, in special considering widespread deployment of HTML > viewers.
Fuck "widespread deployment." That's the worst possible metric for making these decisions. If you go by "widespread deployment" we should just abandon all unix-like operating systems and buy Windows licenses. I don't care if it's roff or whatever, all I want is a markup language that can be easily processed by simple programs. html is a morass of bullshit hacks and workarounds to offset the fact that it's a shitty, poorly-designed markup language. We'd be better off with POD or such than html. Ideally we'd want a nice, regular language that can be parsed with simple regular expressions. -- # Kurt H Maier
