I completely agree, which is why S-expressions rather than JSON, YAML or XML make so much sense. ("Anyone can learn S-expressions.") Imagine: $ ls -l

I completely agree, which is why S-expressions rather than JSON, YAML or XML make so much sense. ("Anyone can learn S-expressions.") Imagine: $ ls -l ((foo 2015-06-09 6 bar baz (rw rw r)) (file2 2012-03-04 18789 bar baz (rwx rwx rwx))) Heck, imagine a world where the shell was a full-featured, fully-typed programming language…