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acuozzo on Feb 14, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Python’s Valentines Day Gift to Clojure

> XML and Json are much more mature ideas for data sharing.

How're they more mature than s-expressions? I don't think everything needs citations, but I'd like to see some supporting evidence for this particular claim.

andrewflnr on Feb 14, 2012 [–]

You probably don't need a citation to know that s-expressions have been around much longer than XML or JSON, for what that's worth.

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