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I think you have that backwards.



I don't understand how anyone could think that I am not aware of the original expression which I have paraphrased. As others have noted, JSON is a local optima solution to a particular group of problems. Using S-Expressions does not improve on that solution, they in fact are less of a good fit. The same way that many misunderstand Lisp, thinking that this would be a better fit to the problems JSON addresses, misunderstands JSON (or those problems).

Well, I thought it was a clever joke, anyway.


My apologies, I took your comment a bit too seriously. I guess it was too clever of a joke.


"Whoever does not re-invent JSON is doomed to understand it" ?




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