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A comment on In Defense of COS, or Why I Love JSON and Hate XML.

Re:In Defense of COS, or Why I Love JSON and Hate XML by xrt on Sunday December 02, 2012 @03:23PM (#4862366)
How is COS separate from PostScript? It looks like a straight PS dictionary.
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Re:In Defense of COS, or Why I Love JSON and Hate XML by thristian on Sunday December 02, 2012 @07:15PM (#4863232)
Well, PostScript probably doesn't have the indirect-object-reference index at the end, but I don't really know much about PostScript so I couldn't say for sure.

I wonder if PostScript is to COS as JavaScript is to JSON.

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