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Re: S-expressions vs. XML

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• Subject: Re: S-expressions vs. XML
• From: Alaric Snell <alaric@a...>
• Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 00:51:26 +0000
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One other point: Don't confuse LISP and s-exprs, as a few posts I've just 
seen on this kind of do.

s-exprs are a way of writing information, kind of like XML.

LISP is a language based around an s-expr data model that happens to use 
s-exprs also for its written syntax, kind of like XSLT.

ABS

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