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   RE: Feeling good about SML

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  • From: "Gavin Thomas Nicol" <gtn@ebt.com>
  • To: "'XML Dev'" <xml-dev@ic.ac.uk>
  • Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:59:55 -0500

> As folk have pointed out, pointy brackets aren't 
> "fundamentally necessary" and LISP S-Expressions are
> _at least_ as powerful ... with a much richer
> and more powerful set of programming systems and traditions 
> behind them.

Yes... I gave this example in a seminar recently, and that comes
directly from my experience implementing a distributed hypermedia
system that used s-expressions for generic markup.

> So a "fundamentally necessary" argument is not at all 
> convincing to me.

Not to me either.


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