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Comment by SoftTalker

16 hours ago

XML was a great idea but the markup was tedious and verbose.

JSON is too simplistic.

Something built from s-expressions would probably have been ideal but we've known that for 70 years.

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pyuser583  9 hours ago

What would that look like?

  • spauldo  4 hours ago

    Look up "SXML" for an example of what that might look like. There's many other ways to do it, though.

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