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Update 2023-11-07-dta-oriented-blogging.dj #160

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Expand Up @@ -13,13 +13,13 @@ be enough, often it isn't.

If a blog has multiple pages, you usually want to have some common elements --- header, footer,
style, etc. It _is_ possible to get common style by copy-pasting an existing page every time you
need to add something. This make changes hard --- having consistent layout at a single point in time
need to add something. This makes changes hard --- having consistent layout at a single point in time
is not sufficient, one almost always wants to be able to apply consistent modifications as well.

The second issue with hand-written html is that some parts might be very annoying to hand-write. For
example, code snippets with syntax highlighting require quite a few tags.

Finally, writing html by hand is not necessary most convenient. A `*` bullet-list certainly is more
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Ah, thanks for this one in particular, it’s only recently that I’ve realized that “necessary” and “necessarily” exist as two different words!

Finally, writing html by hand is not necessarily most convenient. A `*` bullet-list certainly is more
pleasant to look at than an `<ul><li></li></ul>`!

That's why a blog usually is some sort of a script (a program) which reads input content in some
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