Re: OmniMark Rant (was Re: [FWP] A fun bit of obfuscation)

[John Porter <jdporter@min.net>]

Michael G Schwern wrote:
> 
> "OmniMark is cheaper than Perl because OmniMark was designed for text
>  processing.  Although you can do many things in Perl, it was designed
>  to be a UNIX system administrator's tool."
>       I'll just leave that one right where it is.

I need a glass of water.

 
> "OmniMark is cheaper than Perl because it is more concise.  You can
> often do as much in one line of OmniMark as you can in five lines of
> Perl..."
>       Wow, I've -never- see anyone claim to be more concise than Perl.

APL, and its uuencoded derivative, J.

Of course, whether there's "anyone" out there to defend this
particular title is another matter.


> 		   output "\emptycolumn{%d(column-number)}"

So OmniMark, "the SGML/XML Scripting Language", uses TeX markup
internally.  Truly bizarre.


-- 
John Porter


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