> I'd say there must exist a more ancient law, stating that a representation of s-expressions is reinvented whenever a need arises for a generic data format. T

> I'd say there must exist a more ancient law, stating that a representation of s-expressions is reinvented whenever a need arises for a generic data format. That more ancient law would Greenspun's tenth rule, FYI—or a corollary to it, at least. The law proposed here (as Baz's 11th law) was intended to be a humorous and obvious pastiche crafted with Greenspun's quip in mind, with the idea being that the reader would be in on the joke (being already familiar with it). 1. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule>