> Oops, I'm sorry for my communications skills, or lack thereof. The above
> was a butchered version of the LGram draft 1 announcement, which by itself
> was not good. Here's the intro paragraph I've written about LGram on my
> web page:
>
> A project for a universal computer-communication language. It
> differs from XML in that it has no attributes and no tags and
> isn't about marking up text. Instead, nested lists are used to
> denote objects (basic elements being strings, integers, symbols,
> etc). A lot of attention is put in describing usages of that
> language within the language itself, so that you don't need
> separate "document-type definition" (DTD) nor "interface
> description" (IDL) languages to do that.
The first half is much better, but the part about not needing DTD or
IDL could stand clarification.
>
> which is probably much more useful as an introduction.
>
> > I'd appreciate if you added Python to your list of targets.
>
> ok, i added this note to the spec:
>
> --------
> note: conditions for adding to the list of supported languages is:
>
> * someone must be willing to ensure proper supporting elements
> get introduced into the specification (if necessary)
> * someone must be willing to write and maintain an implementation
> of LGRAM
> --------
>
> So are you willing to write and maintain "LGRAM for Python" ?
Sorry, not me -- too busy already. Do you have volunteers for the
other languages?
--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
