[Gllug] Website developement

[Nix]

On 15 Jul 2001, Stig Brautaset stated:
> Nix <nix at esperi.demon.co.uk> writes:
> 
>> On 15 Jul 2001, Stig Brautaset stated:
>> > er... in all fairness, I got the idea from "the linux programming
>> > bible" -- btw a book that have successfully managed to teach me a
>> > whole range of exiting stuff.
>> 
>> If the rest of its ideas are of the same quality as this one, it
>> deserves burning :(
> 
> I take it you are one of these guys that like flash, javascript and so
> an as well then. I personally can't think of anything worse on a webpage.

No, I hate them --- at least, I hate Flash. Javascript has its place and
that place is a long way away from me.

But the idea of using the C preprocessor to munge webpages is completely
broken. Use a proper preprocessor, not a tokenized preprocessor that can
only really handle C.

> The preprocessor/make thing does exactly what I want, and is
> infinately expandable.

Thus speaks someone who hasn't hit cpp's countless limitations. Hell,
you can't even reorder components of a webpage using cpp alone! (M4 can
do that easily, with diversions.)

Look into using M4 rather than cpp. You won't regret it.

-- 
`I'm not sure whether libtool is an existence proof that you _can_
 write a shell script that handles its arguments correctly, or a
 demonstration that you may try but you are doomed to failure.'
                                                       -- Zack Weinberg


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