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21:34:44
jcowan
THere are two problems with "just say (read)"; one is that it may be hard to convince the person at the other end to say (print)/(write), as they probably laren't doing Lisp at all; the other is that those formats are unprotected. I have a different idea for safe-but-extensible S-expressions, temporarily called Core, but for the other case we have to accept the Blub Way of Life if we want to communicate at all.
21:43:26
masinter
Ron's been doing all this GitHub work with the shell CLI to gh and git -- he should be using the API instead
21:45:06
masinter
Lisp and the web have a lot in common... HTML / XML as s-expressions, URLs as typeless pointers, the DOM as the internal representation
23:31:46
jcowan
JSON works well for data interchange, XML doesn't; but there is nothing like XML for *document* interchange.
23:32:16
White_Flame
how do you define a "document" here? every json store seems to call a json block a 'document'
23:55:06
jcowan
I mean a markup version of what a human being calls a document: a letter, pamphlet, book, magazine article, web posting ....
23:57:53
jcowan
If you mean "compatibility with SGML", then it isn't entirely so: the WebSGML Annex was done at about the same time.
0:02:00
jcowan
"No one" seems a rather strong remark. Certainly the DocBook and TEI worlds paid attention to XML and would do so even if XHTML had never existed
0:03:58
jcowan
"There's nothing like eating hay when you're faint," he remarked to her, as he munched away.
0:03:58
jcowan
"I should think throwing cold water over you would be better," Alice suggested: " – or some sal-volatile."
0:03:58
jcowan
"I didn't say there was nothing better," the King replied. "I said there was nothing like it." Which Alice did not venture to deny.