The basic premise (The friendly data format for human & machine) instantly reminded me of Red language [1], which, by the virtue of homoiconicity, is also its o

The basic premise (The friendly data format for human & machine) instantly reminded me of Red language [1], which, by the virtue of homoiconicity, is also its own data format (both textual and binary [2]) with 50 datatypes, many with several unique literal forms: date: 4-Oct-2020 4/11/20 time: 13:04:07 url: https://concise-encoding.org email: kstenerud@gmail.com ref: @kstenerud tag: <div color="red"> integer: 123 float: 123.45 1.#NaN -1.#INF pair: 67x89 percent: 9000% money: USD$0.50 binary: #{deadbeef} 2#{00101101} container: [#hashtag "string" %file.ext #(key value)] ... [1]: https://www.red-lang.org/p/about.html https://www.red-lang.org/p/about.html [2]: https://github.com/red/docs/blob/master/en/redbin.adoc https://github.com/red/docs/blob/master/en/redbin.adoc