SmartAscii

ThoughtStorms Wiki

Term from BillSeitz for WikiMarkup and other easy to enter Ascii formats.

http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/SmartAscii

ExMosis comparason : http://www.exmosis.net/node.Markup_Matrix

These days, it feels like MarkDown has "won" the SmartAscii wars. I've succumbed to the inevitable and ported ThoughtStorms to use it.

Examples

MarkDown
YAML
WikiWords
reStruct : http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html
DoubleComma

etc.

It's a UserInterface : WikiSyntaxIsTheUserInterface

Contrast: XML, RdfHammer etc.

Transcluded from SmartAsciiAsProgrammingLanguage

The real question is when will SmartAscii become a ProgrammingLanguage?

Add some recursive function calling to a text file and you have a FunctionalProgramming language?

(Maybe compare SubText)

Or maybe WikiTalk is it.

CardiganBay embeds ClojureLanguage in wiki-pages.

SeanMcGrath tries to dismiss the program / data distinction in favour of text : http://www.propylon.com/news/ctoarticles/codedata030311.html

Perhaps this is how we should revisit the problem - by revisiting the very notion of text in our computer systems. What if every text editor on the planet was a folding text editor[7] that could seamlessly transclude[8] text from one location into another?

With such a capability we could manage code and data separately, but by simply opening up a different 'view' on them, see them as a merged entity consisting of both code and data. Best of both worlds?

Ain't this pretty much DaveWiner's OPML editor?

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