Christian Seberino wrote:
On Sun, February 4, 2007 6:39 pm, Stewart Stremler wrote:
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.)
Everyone that has been whining about Lisp code readability for last 40
years ruined it for everybody. Now we're stuck with XML which is *worse*.
No, the Lispers screwed it up by fighting Unicode tooth and nail.
"ALL UPPERCASE IS THE ONE TRUE WAY!"
Had they adopted Unicode quickly, they could have cut off XML at the root.
-a
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