Gaunt - A beautiful, minimalist, versatile templating markup language.

Gaunt in 128 bytes of JavaScript:

    function(a,b){return a[b="replace"](/./g,a=function(a){return a[1]?String.fromCharCode(parseInt(a,2)):+(a==" ")})[b](/.{7}/g,a)}

I first saw this neat trick in Billy Hoffman's presentation on circumventing automated JavaScript analysis (scroll down to crazy idea #1):

http://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-usa-08/Hoffman/Hoff...

I feel they didn't push the joke far enough, as you can't actually do any templating. Maybe I should submit a bugfix?

Seeing as Javascript supports UTF8 strings, could use something like non-breaking space (or some other unicode non-printing characters) to do the actual templating.

The use of tabs in this would completely wreck the formatting of my code. I'm sorry but this is useless until it only uses spaces.

Thanks for this! I was looking for a templating engine yesterday and this fits the bill perfectly. </bot>

Can we have a version that looks as nice but without the significant whitespace?

Gaunt is much more like building a piano than listening to Cage-d silence. Avoiding the need for markup sounds more akin to Cage's sensibilities. ++1 for the provocation though that is very funny.

Imagine integrating this with the whitespace programming language.

This elicted a chuckle.

This will revolutionize both the printer and high-resolution-display industry. Instead of wasting computer power on Retina-type displays, this hyper-efficient display output will allow our computers to get back to crunching processor benchmarks.