Tilton
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I like the humility of this. And also the "build your own tools" philosophy, where they end up fit to your own hand.
Web templating systems seem to be one of those things which are both so simple and so subject to aesthetic preference that everyone builds their own at least once in their career.
PHP makes use of the <? ?> notation which lends itself to good integration with text editors, since this is the canonical XML syntax specifically reserved for processing instructions.
In this context, because it's not PHP-specific, there would be nothing wrong with using <? ?> for your own language or preprocessor, and I'd rather prefer it for the additional reason that it's easier to find and type a question mark on many kayboard layouts. If I ever attempt to make a web language again, that's what I'd probably stick with.
That being said, whatever works for you. It's certainly better than what I came up with in the late nineties when I made my first CGI-based HTML preprocessor... I used to encase everything in $ signs, which looked extremely messy and entertained our web designers to no end because they assumed I was thinking about money a lot. However, at the time, that notation did have some advantages because web layout editors had a lesser chance of destroying it as compared to anything weird with angle brackets :D
Jubal Early: You oughta be shot, or stabbed, lose a leg... to be a surgeon. You know? Know the kind of pain you're dealing with. They make Psychiatrists get psychoanalyzed before they can get certified, but they don't make surgeons get cut on. That seem right to you?
char* newString = new char[newMaxLength];
memmove(newString, string, maxLength);
delete string;
string = newString;
That's fine.
But nobody else should probably touch it.
It just shouldn't be blindly trusted as production-ready for anyone not intimately acquainted with the interiors.
(That and Tilton isn't even in VC as far as I can tell.)
>At this point I should have noticed that this language was going to be inexcusably ugly, but astonishingly, I did not notice at the time. I kept pushing on, inspired by better languages like TRAC and LISP. I determined that this was the wrong approach for dealing with browser incompatibility, but I completed the language anyway. I named it Tilton after Robert Tilton, a television faith healer and speaker of tongues. I believe that Tilton is the ugliest programming language that was not intended to be an ugly programming language.
I remember how stoked I was when I finally found out I didn't have to edit each of my "HTML" pages by hand, or use some shitty templating object built into Frontpage or Dreamweaver, just to change my header or those wicked sweet affiliates.