From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!newsfeed2.dallas1.level3.net!news.level3.com!news-out.visi.com!petbe.visi.com!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!news-FFM2.ecrc.net!uio.no!nntp.uio.no!not-for-mail From: Erik Naggum Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: MS discovers S-expressions Date: 23 Jan 2004 19:39:04 +0000 Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 19 Message-ID: <3283875544032028KL2065E@naggum.no> References: <86brouu22n.fsf@bogomips.optonline.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: readme.uio.no 1074886744 29618 129.240.65.201 (23 Jan 2004 19:39:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@uio.no NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 19:39:04 +0000 (UTC) Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:10572 * Marc Spitzer > Well XML does not support anything well, even XML. * Joe Marshall | Except, perhaps, the toner and paper industries. Do not forget the memory and disk and bandwidth and Internet router vendors. Where would we /be/ today if he had software as storage- efficient as we had only 10 years ago? Take the Internet RFC index in XML, which has 65% XML and 35% contents. Back when I did standards, the telecom people designed things like ASN.1 with compact encodings so they would not waste any /bits/. Now watch me stumble and lie here on Memory Lane while the world rushes by. -- Erik Naggum | Oslo, Norway Act from reason, and failure makes you rethink and study harder. Act from faith, and failure makes you blame someone and push harder.