> At some points they use JSON (a data format) to describe procedures... like a programming language written in JSON. It feels a bit like using a screwdriver ha

> At some points they use JSON (a data format) to describe procedures... like a programming language written in JSON. It feels a bit like using a screwdriver handle as a hammer. And folks laugh at me for suggesting S-expressions until I'm blue in the face! Seriously, this is one of the areas in which they excel (ref.: literally every line of Lisp ever written). They're a pretty nifty data format too (cf. https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/the-emacs-problem https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/the-emacs-problem).