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So we agree :)

Ada?

When you give a piece of cake, that doesn't make you a cake vendor, do you?

Catala has similar goal than OpenEdge ABL[1] which is prose also.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenEdge_Advanced_Business_Lan...

Oh, I was only saying that the article isn't saying that you cannot easily retrieve the value of an arbitrary XML element. It simply putting together selected examples that should deserve YAML and convince us that we must swear XML true.

Well, life isn't black and white, but somewhat greyscale. From my experience, none is better and they don't share the same use-cases.

Note that all of those (but with some limitations on multiple selections via RE) are available in Ex/Vi and Ed previously.

> I wonder if the author has ever heard of vis[0] which imho fulfills far better each one of those premises

Same goes for Sam…

> Vi-style binds are moderately unintuitive,

Oh... For my part, other binds are weird and less ergonomic from far. I'm vey used to vi-style: I mostly work in text mode (no GUI, no mouse) and I like to talk to my editor what I want...

It's only a construction to justify author's biases.

You're one of those few lucky whose malformed xml cause no issue.

Remember those wedding or birthday parties catch with camcorders on Super8 or VHS? Then see that requirement for video log was high compared to nowadays were most people have a smartphone and they exist platforms like youtube/vimeo/facebook/etc for storage and sharing. If you have privacy concerns, it's still not a viable solution unless you have some computers management backgrounds (and can afford investments in storage and backup.)

On the other hand, pencils and notebooks were affordable. Once you knew writing, paper journal was most obvious than self video. If you wanted to make the journal available to public, blog was a thing (like vlog is today.) However, on heavy adoption, not everybody use to log…

Also note that as handwriting decrease while typewriting increase, written journal become digital.

:D And I'm not sure there's some real need and use of that feature.

FP are part of R, like Q or D sets. (I think it should be considered/seen as a subset of decimal numbers set.)

What about https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/type-layout.html#the-ali...

IEEE 754 is well defined so that $a+b=b+a$ But it can't give you warranty that $(a+b)+c=a+(b+c)$ (well known error propagation issue)

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But all structured format use words, and they're many programming language that are prose since COBOL. No one want to write laws in APL or assembly like.

According to the example in the readme, it's specially for text law that produce codes… So it should be a road to some literal programming or implementation proven.

Example of text law that should/may become code somewhere: the senate vote to give pension to veterans that meet some criteria… But there already exist less known rules for some cases and they may be incompatible.

I think that coupled with some kind of prolog, it may help detecting inconsistencies early.

They're even languages named: basic, pascal, java, rust, go, zig, dart, eifel, camel, python, ruby, julia, scheme, racket, joy, mad, coq, lean, ...

Smart…

A useless comment to say: I do.

Using the same app daily here.

You're supposed to write things like `\chapter{the title}` (so focusing on the content) instead of dealing with: font family/size/weight/variant/shape, text color/flushing/decoration, you know all those formatting you're always playing with with text editors for example.

And so will be in next century.

Lucky you.

People aren't seeking for stability but for constant eye catching buzz.

It's flying lovely :D

Here. Lean it just for fun and curiosity, and never use it in my career.

windows…

POSIX options and behaviours are the same, not extra stuffs.

So I must be a masochist 'cause having fun with my Slackware and my BSDs?