Article:		Introducing o:XML
Subject:		Poor reimplementation of LISP
Date:		2004-07-23 06:41:17
From:		Foob
For those too obsessed with XML-trendiness to realise - this is extremely similar in a lot of ways to LISP, which is a lot more powerful and elegant and uses S-expressions rather than XML syntax. Suggest anyone who likes the sound of this tries out LISP before investing the time learning to work with this monstrosity. Common ideas - representing code and data using the same type of syntax, extensibility of the language, mark-up style syntax (LISP's is a lot less convoluted than XML as it doesn't need to distinguish between tag names and attributes). Guys, why not just write a front-end to LISP that converts XML into S-expressions?

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• Poor reimplementation of LISP
  2004-07-30 03:14:33 PeterVerhas
  
  This is exactly the comment that came up in my mind when I was reading the article. In 1991 we implemented LIST data structures and data store for the language in a project. This time a language is born on the top of the data.
  
  

• Poor reimplementation of LISP
  2004-07-23 07:07:46 Martin Klang
  
  > why not just write a front-end to LISP that converts XML into S-expressions?

  
  You can have it in Perl:
  http://www.lisp-p.org/xml/
  or in XSLT:
  http://www.eros-os.org/pipermail/e-lang/2001-September/005694.html

  
  Nice to see that so many Lisp enthusiasts are reading XML.com!