" I'm programming. I'm not wrestling with markup; that's for computers to do. I get the same pleasure out of using HAML."
Anecdotal counterpoint:
I'm one of those who has the opposite experience with Haml. It's a constant fight. OTOH, XML/HTML is stupid easy; my editor takes care of the annoying parts, and I never fight with cryptic errors. It's easy to cut-n-paste for assorted sources, and use WYSIWYG editors if and when I want to.
I think I could live with Haml (I'm sort of compelled to deal with it since I took over an abandoned Rails project) if it did not use significant indentation. It works ok for small chunks of text, utter pain when there's much nesting going on.
The application of the description "terse" is quite on the money. It's not a feature.
Anecdotal counterpoint:
I'm one of those who has the opposite experience with Haml. It's a constant fight. OTOH, XML/HTML is stupid easy; my editor takes care of the annoying parts, and I never fight with cryptic errors. It's easy to cut-n-paste for assorted sources, and use WYSIWYG editors if and when I want to.
I think I could live with Haml (I'm sort of compelled to deal with it since I took over an abandoned Rails project) if it did not use significant indentation. It works ok for small chunks of text, utter pain when there's much nesting going on.
The application of the description "terse" is quite on the money. It's not a feature.