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 Dare Obasanjo wrote: >>> > S-exprs are equivalent to XML for a large class of XML users. >>> And yet, they're not. See below. >>> First of all if you think about why most people use XML you'll realize it's mostly because of the network effect and not anything intrinsically fantastic about angle brackets. >>> It's more interesting to wonder why XML is amenable to 'the network effect' as you call it. If you believe in such nework effects, you can't begin to compare sexprs to XML as being equivalent, certainly not in this posible world. >>> From that perspective, most users of XML could just be as well served with S-expressions which for all intents and purposes would be equivalent to XML for their use cases. >>> The point is that they don't use sexprs, or ASN1, or CSV files. They use XML. Syntax matters; all these 'equivalent' formats and XML trumps the lot, for publishing /and/ data transfer. > PS: I do think that Wadler's paper is extremely mistitled. Agreed. Bill de hÃ?ra 
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