2013-03-18 Some time ago, HTML had been simple. Have a look at the sources of, [0] for instance. They seem to be program-generated but they are wonderfully clear. This old HTML is reinvented today with markdown. I wonder if markdown in 20 years will look like HTML today. Perhaps it won't because it is not SGML-derived, i.e. it is not powerful enough to go that road. Is that a motivation for limited languages? ``Signal handling is a complex beast'', [1] but it is worth to glimpse at it, from time to time. Grep's late brother gres(1) is hardly known today after the birth of sed(1) lead to his death. Here are a description [2] and a minimal implementation. [3] [0] http://www1.ku-eichstaett.de/urz/inkuerze/1_94/awk.html [1] http://lwn.net/Articles/278717/ [2] http://www.mkssoftware.com/docs/man1/gres.1.asp [3] http://docstore.mik.ua/orelly/unix/sedawk/ch03_02.htm#AUTOID- 2409 http://marmaro.de/lue/ markus schnalke