begin quoting Todd Walton as of Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 07:36:11PM -0600: > On 2/4/07, Christian Seberino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >XML is not very human readable. > > I thought readability by humans was only a secondary goal for XML. > It's readable *if you must*, but you're not generally supposed to > write XML. That's why we have software. > > XML is a machine's language.
It is _now_. I don't recall the advocates[1] ever saying such a thing. S-expressions are *also* readable by humans, if they must, and are likewise machine-friendly. And a good deal more concise, which makes 'em even more machine-friendly than XML. And still text, too. (Not that S-expressions are perfect. They're annoying in their own way.) -- [1] I don't think I read anything by the designers about this, however. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
