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XML and Json are much more mature ideas for data sharing. edit: google results for: "python xml" : 359,000 "python json" : 48,600 "python s-expression"
by dustingetz 15y ago
XML and Json are much more mature ideas for data sharing.
edit: google results for:
"python xml" : 359,000
"python json" : 48,600
"python s-expression" : 5,440
- acuozzo 15y ago> XML and Json are much more mature ideas for data sharing. How're they more mature than s-expressions? I don't think everything needs citations, but I'd like to see some supporting evidence for this particular claim.
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- andrewflnr 15y agoYou probably don't need a citation to know that s-expressions have been around much longer than XML or JSON, for what that's worth.
- awj 15y agoWhy are "google results for python %s" a useful maturity metric here? A better argument would have been showing that both xml and json can be parsed/generated through standard Python libraries. S-expressions don't support this behavior.
- zaphar 15y agoI didn't say mature I said they were a good format for it. And by what metric are you measuring maturity? * Age? s-expressions predate python by a fair amount. * Parsers? just about every language I know has a lisp interpreter embedded in it. s-expressions therefore have parsers in pretty much all languages. * Market Share? well xml and json may win there but I'm not sure that's a valid reason to discount s-expressions