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It would be interesting to see lisp adoption coming not as a language but as a serialization format. It seems fairly easy to implement and every language would

by zimbatm 13y ago

It would be interesting to see lisp adoption coming not as a language but as a serialization format. It seems fairly easy to implement and every language would then have at least the AST part of lisp.

endlessvoid94 13y ago
I think this is a gem of an idea. Like an attack vector.
evanspa 13y ago
The Clojure folks are doing this with EDN: https://github.com/edn-format/edn https://github.com/edn-format/edn
- bitbckt 13y ago
  And in OCaml: https://github.com/janestreet/sexplib https://github.com/janestreet/sexplib
wtbob 13y ago
You mean like canonical s-expressions (http://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/Sexp.txt http://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/Sexp.txt)? One can write a parser for the canonical representation in less than an hour, and a parser for the advanced representation in a weekend. They are infinitely nicer than XML.
- zimbatm 13y ago
  Yes. So why isn't it more common ?