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I didn't claim it was revolutionary, I just keep hearing LISP hackers say "there's no reason to care about XML or JSON if you've got S-Expressions, which are so

by jes5199 15y ago

I didn't claim it was revolutionary, I just keep hearing LISP hackers say "there's no reason to care about XML or JSON if you've got S-Expressions, which are so much cleaner" This project is exercising (proving? refuting?) that claim. I recognize that this isn't the most ambitious project in the world, but it was a Thanksgiving-weekend hack. I'm thrilled that it got the 20 votes necessary to get it on the front page of HN.

lisper 15y ago
I vote for "prove". All those extra and unnecessary quotes and commas. Blech. And all that extra ugliness just so you can re-use the JS parser? IMHO there's no excuse for this. It's really easy to write a parser that does the Right Thing, e.g.: http://www.flownet.com/ron/lisp/l.py http://www.flownet.com/ron/lisp/l.py