I think Mihai Barbuceanu wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> > > The parsing argument doesn't really fly for me either; LISP/KIF-styled
> > > languages (as Jess clearly is, unless ejfried objects) are almost
> > > inarguably easier to parse than XML documents
> >
> > No, not really. It's hard to beat
> >
> >    Document doc = documentBuilder.parse(new InputSource(reader));
> >
> Actually, Lisp does beat this:
> 
> (setq a (read))


Indeed. But the equivalent in Java, C, C++, or other "mainstream"
languages would be quite a bit longer!



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