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Consider the verbosity of XML compared to s-expressions. <html>...</html> vs (html ...) The latter can trivially be used to output the former. The conclusion
by liability 7y ago
Consider the verbosity of XML compared to s-expressions. <html>...</html> vs (html ...)
The latter can trivially be used to output the former. The conclusion is obvious; some of these formats are objectively more verbose that others while having equivalent expressive power.
- saagarjha 7y agoInterestingly, depending on the context I find one or the other to be more readable. XML is great when you're got a lot of content, because it provides additional context of where you are in the closing tag, but it's not as great when you don't have a lot of data since the closing tag is just visual clutter.