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Re: What is a lightweight language

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Subject: Re: What is a lightweight language
From: Simon Cozens <address@hidden>
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 19:59:19 +0000
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On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 02:49:21PM -0500, Paul Prescod wrote:
> > For programming, s-exprs provide much better readability.  Not even the
> > XSLT folks advocate using XML syntax to structure all programmatic
> > expressions.  
> 
> No, but I think you'd have a heard time getting them to advocate using
> all s-expressions either. ;)

Only because they're still recovering from DSSSL.

-- 
Only two things are infinite: the universe and human ignorance. -A. Einstein

References:
- Re: What is a lightweight language
  - From: Shriram Krishnamurthi <sk@cs.brown.edu>
- Re: What is a lightweight language
  - From: Paul Graham <paulgraham@yahoo.com>
- Re: What is a lightweight language
  - From: Simon Cozens <simon@simon-cozens.org>
- Re: What is a lightweight language
  - From: Bruce Lewis <brlewis@alum.mit.edu>
- Re: What is a lightweight language
  - From: Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net>
- Re: What is a lightweight language
  - From: Bruce Lewis <brlewis@alum.mit.edu>
- Re: What is a lightweight language
  - From: Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net>

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