[Haskell-cafe] Re: [web-devel] statically compiled css

Alexander Dunlap alexander.dunlap at gmail.com
Sun Aug 8 09:15:53 EDT 2010


On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 4:00 AM, Michael Snoyman <michael at snoyman.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Tim Matthews <tim.matthews7 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 9:20 PM, Michael Snoyman <michael at snoyman.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Quick update: I'm including the "Stylish" code in the hamlet package now,
>>> and renaming it to "Camlet" (CSS-hamlet). I'm also including something
>>> called "Jamlet", which doesn't do much besides variable interpolation. As
>>> you might guess, it's for Javascript. I mention it at the end of my most
>>> recent blog post[1].
>>> Michael
>>
>> While It's just a name and not really important: hamlet was haml so I
>> first imagined sasset, sasslet or another name from one of the works of
>> Shakespeare but I then really liked stylish as I thought it would tell that
>> something with solid foundations and theory could still appear, hip and
>> pretty.
>>
>> What is important though is the code. This is absolutely great and success
>> just keeps getting harder to avoid.
>>
> This is by no means a final decision; I'm open to being convinced that other
> names are better. But I'll point out the main reason for the Camlet/Jamlet
> name choice: easy to remember and type. I found "stylish" to be much harder
> to get out than "camlet"; that might just be because I'm so used to hamlet
> already, but that's exactly my goal here: make these three templating
> systems work together nicely to make the developers life a little bit
> easier.
> Michael
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CaSSius and JSaesar?

Alex


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