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A comment on Flare Programming Language.

Re:Flare Programming Language by andsoitis on Monday February 06, 2023 @11:17AM (#34679616)
> Flare is a proposal for the first "annotative" programming language. In dialects of LISP, both the program and the program data are represented as lists. In Flare, the program, program data, and ideally the program state, are all represented as well-formed XML.

this text is from their 2001 explanation of the language. xml would probably make for very clumsy and obscured program logic.

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Re:Flare Programming Language by agumonkey on Monday February 06, 2023 @03:23PM (#34683770)
anecdote: a lisp teacher had the tendency to make proglang classes in xml form, to introduce students to trees and tree processing stages

but he made everything from a scheme code base :D

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