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Xarn came up with a very similar implementation of an s-expression-based markup language a few years ago:

http://cairnarvon.rotahall.org/2010/05/25/towards-a-better-b...

It's fun to play around with for a minute, but unless you really like /prog/, you're rarely going to want that kind of flexibility in basic text formatting. Still, a sexpcode parser would make for a decent board gimmick, so I'm kind of surprised that no one (that I can remember, anyways) used it for that.




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