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To be fair this isn't my technology. I didn't invent Sass. But having used it for over two years now I can say it is a huge improvement over CSS. And yes hopefully the features found in Sass will eventually make it into CSS, but if it replaces CSS or is incorporated into CSS isn't that the same thing?

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There is a slight difference conceptually. The goal/concept of CSS is to simply html AND provide a means to generate advanced layouts (while keeping the simplicity). The goal/concept of Sass is to speed up the process of writing CSS because well, even if you know what you want, it's pretty damn time consuming. (Note: I say the exact same thing about html and will prove a `post script`.)

And when I said it would incorporate some of the features, I really meant "Eventually CSS may become a very primitive scripting language with variables and functions," but I didn't quite say that because at the same time I'm thinking "JAVASCRIPT!" So to be honest, imho, CSS will never incorporate anything from Sass- ever. However, there is a good chance text editors (inferable via my `post script`) will.

P.S I recently pounced upon a project called zen coding: http://code.google.com/p/zen-coding/

Does pretty much the same thing, but with html. It's a plugin and there is support for different editors. It's pretty awesome- By does pretty much the same thing, I mean it allows you to write html code very quickly by writing in a "shorthand."

It would make sense for CSS to have constants, thought not variables in the javascript sense.

The next version of Zen Coding is going to support Haml: http://twitter.com/zen_coding/status/7665962389

They may look similar, but you quickly realise they're not if you actually give them a decent try out.

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