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Re:Teaching Compilers Backward by konjin on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @08:32PM (#26245525)
>XML is absolutely S-expressions

You need a lot of predefined structure to capture attributes using brackets, much more than you do for dictionaries - which are just ordered pairs in a list when serialized.

Re:Teaching Compilers Backward by peteretep on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @09:35PM (#26245948)
(apologies, ninja deleted, I do not wish to continue this discussion)
Re:Teaching Compilers Backward by konjin on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @09:37PM (#26245965)
There isn't a difference when it's serialized.