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I think that Lisp actually strikes a great balance here. The data structures that represent programs are simple and unambiguous, and they serialize to text file

I think that Lisp actually strikes a great balance here. The data structures that represent programs are simple and unambiguous, and they serialize to text files absolutely trivially. We should be able to work with code-as-data while making use of text-based persistence and versioning.

jimbokun 14y ago
Maybe if someone invented a "new" programming language where programs were valid JSON, without mentioning the obvious connection to Lisp, programmers could be tricked into using it. Programmers seem to love adopting the features of Lisp, as long as they can re-assure themselves they are not actually programming in Lisp.
- maaku 14y ago
  MISC might be of relevance here: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2887 http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2887 EDIT: And for the record, I actually think it's a brilliant idea.
- tomjakubowski 14y ago
  Srikumar K.S's jexpr is an experimental (and it seems abandoned) attempt at doing just this: http://srikumarks.github.com/jexpr/ http://srikumarks.github.com/jexpr/ {do: [ {fetchURL: "http://some.data.source/", timeout: 30.0, onfail: {raiseError: "URL not reachable"}}, {fork: [ {displayInElement: "element_id"}, {cacheInLocalStorage: "prefix"} ]}]} more here: http://srikumarks.github.com/gyan/2012/04/15/j-expressions/ http://srikumarks.github.com/gyan/2012/04/15/j-expressions/ http://srikumarks.github.com/gyan/2012/04/14/creating-dsls-in-javascript-using-j-expressions/ http://srikumarks.github.com/gyan/2012/04/14/creating-dsls-i...
  - darkxanthos 14y ago
    Wow this is pretty great! Never knew about this and might play with it some. Thanks!