[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));
>
> and then you have the whole DOM apparatus at your disposal. Jess's
> parser is > 1600 lines of code.

Actually, Lisp does beat this:

(setq a (read))

And the Lisp macros (the backquote plus @ and ,) are extremely powerful at
generating anything one may think of.

Mihai

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