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Re: terra incognita

• To: xml-dev@l..., "Tim Bray" <tbray@t...>
• Subject: Re: terra incognita
• From: Joe English <jenglish@f...>
• Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 08:33:59 -0800
• In-reply-to: <022d01c186e1$3fa7ce10$0500a8c0@carnage>
• References: <022d01c186e1$3fa7ce10$0500a8c0@carnage> <5.1.0.14.2.20011216205651.02475de0@p...>

Dare Obasanjo wrote:
> [Tim Bray wrote]:
> > At the end of the day code and data just aren't that much
> > like each other.  Maybe this is why Lisp never took over the
> > world, cool though it is.  -Tim
>
> It is very interesting that you say this. I've seen a few people
> from the Lisp camp complain that XML is simply a more verbose
> yet less powerful reinvention of Lisp S-expressions with a lot of
> extra complexity added in (like namespaces, attributes and entity
> references).

You have to take that with a grain of salt though.
There are folks in the Lisp camp who say that about
*every* new programming technology.  "What's the big
deal about X?  It's just a poorly reinvented version
of feature Y in Common Lisp."


--Joe English

  jenglish@f...

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