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Re:Ask HN: Learning Lisp? by bubblesocks on Sunday January 01, 2017 @07:11PM (#13298179)
Lisp is awesome, but I think you're doing it a disservice by comparing it to XML, which is a technology that was derived straight from Satan's bottom. Lisp is elegant. XML, not so much.
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Re:Ask HN: Learning Lisp? by kazinator on Monday January 02, 2017 @09:32AM (#13301294)
It's useful to compare Lisp to XML from the data notation aspect. As in, look, we already had better ideas for tree-structured data being communicated in text, forty years before XML.
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Re:Ask HN: Learning Lisp? by jonaf on Sunday January 01, 2017 @07:22PM (#13298228)
This isn't exactly relevant to the OP, but, what's wrong with XML?
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