HTML, the Programming Language

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Interesting language I saw over on HN. Never going to use it but still interesting to read about

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"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should."

Wild that every command uses pre-existing html tags. Took me a bit to notice that

We are aware of the criticisms of GOTO, which, given a superficial understanding of the anchor tag in HTML, the programming language, may come to mind for some programmers (mainly juniors). A full response to this criticism is beyond the scope of this document, but, in summary: you are wrong

not a programmer but i feel if i used this the <> would be very annoying to type

It's also just stupidly verbose and there's no advantage to the extra text.

This is amazing, going to recommend this to my team as a JavaScript replacement on Monday!