XML is almost always misused

Re:XML is almost always misused by sedachv on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @05:30PM (#21392281)

S-expressions have been around since the 1960s. McCarthy was already proposing S-expressions for what XML would become, in 1975. Stop whining and finding excuses, and start using s-expressions.

http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/cbcl2/cbcl2.html

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Re:XML is almost always misused by alkonaut on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @06:49PM (#21392938)

I'm not trying to pick the best format for the job, I'm usually trying to pick the least bad one that's available IN the platform/standard library I'm using.

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