@enf Do you know why SGML uses angle brackets by default?
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Replying to @mwichary
No. I had thought that it inherited them from GML, but apparently that's not true
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My guess: []{} can be letters in ISO-646 national variants, and () are too heavily used in text to use them for markup
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Maybe it was inspired by Backus-Naur Form?
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Replying to @enf
Thanks! It's really interesting to me, how <> ended up where they are on the keyboard, and how it coincided with HTML using…
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…angle brackets. And now tons of people suffer every day having to enter <> in such awkward ways.
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Imagine how much nicer HTML would be to type in if it used []!
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Replying to @mwichary
I think we're lucky we didn't get stuck with GML's :tag.text::tag. syntax for <tag>text</tag> though!
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Replying to @mwichary
Although apparently you use :eol. instead of ::ol. so I don't really understand how it is parsed…pic.twitter.com/05u3LF0Y4G
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