On Jun 08, 2006, at 07:36, Michael Champion wrote:
> I hate to sound like a crusty old conservative, but it would be nice
> if people didn't jump on the JSON (etc.) bandwagon just because it's
> trendy and fun and helps differentiate one's message ... and XML is
> soooo 1990's.
Talking of the nineties, JSON has a striking resemblance to NeXT's
ASCII Property Lists (aka plist):
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/
PropertyLists/Concepts/OldStylePListsConcept.html
http://alt.textdrive.com/pl/3/pl-the-format
Even a flavor of Lua's table, come to thing of it:
http://www.lua.org/pil/3.6.html
http://www.lua.org/history.html
What's old is new again.
Cheers
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