Re: [dev][surf]

On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Bjartur Thorlacius <svartman95_AT_gmail.com>wrote:

> On 4/8/10, Jacob Todd <jaketodd422_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 06:22:49PM +0000, Bjartur Thorlacius wrote:
> >> ...
> >> P.S. I'm new here. Why's XML so evil? If you don't have to test for
> >> well-formed and validness, that is.
> > http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/xml/
> We can all agree that XML is insane as a interchange format between
> databases. But for basic markup, when markdown/(re)StructuredText
> sn't a fit, it allows one to use a (hopefully simple) generic parser.
> Sexp(r)s are bloated with type info, and have a name which can get
> them confused with structured-expressions. XML is (ugh)
> SGML-compatible and quite readable if used sparsily, and only used to
> add semantic info to content in another language such as English or
> SPARC-assembly. Some Tcl-based syntax would maybe suck less, but is it
> worth it to get rid of XML-style closing tags?
>
> title lolcats
> author Thorlacius Bjartur
> author Friend Imaginary
> para {
> This is a slightly better alternative to XML.
> }
> para "XML at least doesn't require quotes:
> [ http://w3.org/TR/xml ]"
> para [ /bin/games/fortune ]
> # URIs enclosed in []s get replaced by the resource.
>
>
S-expr (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-expression) would be even better. But
this has been said sooo many times...
Received on Mon Apr 12 2010 - 16:14:48 UTC