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• Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 12:31:06 +0200
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On Jun 08, 2006, at 07:36, Michael Champion wrote:

> I hate to sound like a crusty old conservative, but it would be nice  
> if people didn't jump on the JSON  (etc.) bandwagon just because it's  
> trendy and fun and helps differentiate one's message ... and XML is  
> soooo 1990's.

Talking of the nineties, JSON has a striking resemblance to NeXT's  
ASCII Property Lists (aka plist):

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/ 
PropertyLists/Concepts/OldStylePListsConcept.html

http://alt.textdrive.com/pl/3/pl-the-format

Even a flavor of Lua's table, come to thing of it:

http://www.lua.org/pil/3.6.html

http://www.lua.org/history.html

What's old is new again.

Cheers

--
PA, Onnay Equitursay
http://alt.textdrive.com/

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