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XML vs Python?

Gary Duzan gduzan at bbn.com
Fri Jan 24 15:45:03 EST 2003 
In article <87heby2u06.fsf at theasylum.dyndns.org>,
Tim Lavoie  <tlavoie at acm.org> wrote:
>
>    >> Do you know that Lisp programmers have been storing data as
>    >> nested lists for forty years? You have rediscovered the wheel.
>
>At least with Lisp you have a powerful programming language with a
>natural way to express complex nested data. If you want to see
>something truly bletcherous, have a gander at those who try to write
>programs in XML.  <<shudder>> Check out:
>
>  http://www.waterlang.org/doc/tutorial_fast_intro.html
>

   Except that if you squint a bit, Water really does look a lot
like Lisp/CLOS, and in a similar way Water is set up to have the
code look like the data that it is working on. Obviously, you would
be insane to want to program in the stuff for general-purpose code,
but if you are writing XML-centric code, it could make a lot of
sense.

					Gary Duzan
					BBN Technologies
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