Speaking of Viaweb... Actually, I'd love to see Lisp-style metalanguage here at news.yc, for example:
{i This text would be italic}
{y:99053 This is a link to a news.yc post}
{r:http://wikipedia.com Click to go to Wikipedia}
This does the math for you, so 2 * 2 is {* 2 2}
Literal curly brackets: ~{ ~}, literal tilde ~~ - that's all you need to know.
Angle brackets < > could be used instead of { } as well - doesn't really matter.
Not that it would be a huge improvement, but rather ummmm... for the sake of some lispness.
The idea is not new, I thought about a text pre-processing language like this before. And no, I'm no lisp hacker, just a C/unixoid programmer with oily greasy hands.
