The Emacs Problem (2005)

Re:The Emacs Problem (2005) by jjgreen on Sunday October 18, 2020 @03:12PM (#24820305)

Needs a [2005] (I was a bit puzzled by the dated XML enthusiasm)

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Re:The Emacs Problem (2005) by pmoriarty on Sunday October 18, 2020 @04:00PM (#24820634)

If you read deeper you'll see he's actually not enthusiastic about XML, but only about tree-structured data, and is well aware of the drawbacks of XML, which is why he's actually advocating sexp's.

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Re:The Emacs Problem (2005) by rst on Sunday October 18, 2020 @04:05PM (#24820678)

Also explains the lack of references to (currently) obvious alternatives like JSON or YAML.

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Re:The Emacs Problem (2005) by db48x on Sunday October 18, 2020 @04:31PM (#24820902)

XML, JSON, and YAML are all alternatives to s-expressions. And s-expressions were invented first.

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Re:The Emacs Problem (2005) by dang on Sunday October 18, 2020 @05:03PM (#24821111)

Added. Thanks!

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