On Sun, February 4, 2007 11:25 pm, Andrew Lentvorski wrote: >> It appears obvious to all of us that S-expressions are superior to XML. > > Really? Why? S-expressions have no standard for escaping special > characters. S-expressions have no standard for Unicode compliance or > encoding. There are a couple of others.
Sorry. My mistake. When I said S-expressions I just meant using *parentheses* with all these problems solved in some standard way that goes beyond Lisp. >> If so, I don't understand why the XML founders, with all their resumes, >> Ivy league degrees and dot.com millions didn't have enough collective IQ >> between them to invent a Unicodey Lispy dialect instead. > > Because they didn't start out to make XML a generalized exchange > language. XML stands for eXtensible *Markup* Language. It does a nice > job for markup. Too bad they didn't try to also make it as human readable as possible. They may have rediscovered parentheses. -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
