Nikolai Bezroukov has written about the efficacy of scripting languages here and believes them to be the primary achievement of the open source movement. Their advantages over “system” languages such as C include compactness of code, weak (or no) typing where strings and numbers are easily interchangeable, and lack of need for explicit system management, such as garbage collection or memory allocation.

In May of 2017, I enrolled in the BLOC web development curriculum. What was I looking for and what have I found so far?

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Jeykll supports the use of Markdown with inline HTML tags which makes it easier to quickly write posts with Jekyll, without having to worry too much about text formatting. A sample of the formatting follows.