Compiling a Static Web Site Using the C Preprocessor
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Re: Compiling a Static Web Site Using the C Preprocessor
#2Nice piece of history. You can see its age showing:
"Rather quickly it was realized that if you want to ensure a reasonable user experience both on desktops and mobiles, there is absolutely no way you can use the same HTML for both sites."
Re: Compiling a Static Web Site Using the C Preprocessor
#3> In fact, almost any kind of text processor can be used to compile web sites in a similar way to what has been described above (for example, m4 ...
I thought about m4 all the time while reading through that post...
Re: Compiling a Static Web Site Using the C Preprocessor
#4> In fact, almost any kind of text processor can be used to compile web sites in a similar way to what has been described above (for example, m4 ... I thought about m4 all the time while reading through that post...
The only time I ever used M4 was when trying to create a Sendmail configuration. I really disliked it.
Re: Compiling a Static Web Site Using the C Preprocessor
#5Congrats, you've re-discovered the same origin where PHP started nearly 20 years ago.
Maybe you could replace the generic c preprocessor dialect with a new domain specific DSL. For instance one where macros can simply be embedded directly into HTML. For instance everything between the is parsed as macros. /s
Re: Compiling a Static Web Site Using the C Preprocessor
#6Congrats, you've re-discovered the same origin where PHP started nearly 20 years ago. Maybe you could replace the generic c preprocessor dialect with a new domain specific DSL. For instance one where macros can simply be embedded directly into HTML. For instance everything between the is parsed as macros. /s
I wonder if one could propose that "any sufficiently complicated static website compiler contains an ad-hoc, informally specificed, bug ridden, slow implementation of half of PHP..."
Re: Compiling a Static Web Site Using the C Preprocessor
#7Congrats, you've re-discovered the same origin where PHP started nearly 20 years ago. Maybe you could replace the generic c preprocessor dialect with a new domain specific DSL. For instance one where macros can simply be embedded directly into HTML. For instance everything between the is parsed as macros. /s
I wonder if one could propose that "any sufficiently complicated static website compiler contains an ad-hoc, informally specificed, bug ridden, slow implementation of half of PHP..."
Haha, I never thought of it like that before.
That probably holds true for any one written in C. Maybe even some others that use server-side view generation.