Comment by mncharity

1 day ago

Yes. Not quite a decade before JSON and YAML, what's at hand for a human-readable interchange format for nested data? SGML (no XML yet), something FORTH-ish, make up your own thing, and...? Contemporary WAIS (search as a distinct non-HTTP protocol) shrugged off human-readable, and tried nightmarish binary ASN.1.

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