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Whoever does not understand JSON, is doomed to reinvent it.

• spacemanaki 15y ago
  I think you have that backwards.
  • mambodog 15y ago
    I don't understand how anyone could think that I am not aware of the original expression which I have paraphrased. As others have noted, JSON is a local optima solution to a particular group of problems. Using S-Expressions does not improve on that solution, they in fact are less of a good fit. The same way that many misunderstand Lisp, thinking that this would be a better fit to the problems JSON addresses, misunderstands JSON (or those problems). Well, I thought it was a clever joke, anyway.
    • spacemanaki 15y ago
      My apologies, I took your comment a bit too seriously. I guess it was too clever of a joke.
  • OliverM 15y ago
    "Whoever does not re-invent JSON is doomed to understand it" ?