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-
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