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sexps?

• fourthark 8mo ago
  Presumably https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-expression https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-expression
• ripe 8mo ago
  > sexps? Not the person you're responding to, but I think they mean sexps as in S-expressions [1]. These are used in all kinds of programming, and they have been used inside protocols for markup, as in the email protocol IMAP. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-expression https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-expression
  • mncharity 8mo ago
    Yes. Not quite a decade before JSON and YAML, what's at hand for a human-readable interchange format for nested data? SGML (no XML yet), something FORTH-ish, make up your own thing, and...? Contemporary WAIS (search as a distinct non-HTTP protocol) shrugged off human-readable, and tried nightmarish binary ASN.1.