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0 pointsthrown_223y ago0 comments

Every lisp program supports that serialization format out of the box.

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lmm3y ago· 2 in thread

No, every lisp program supports its own idiosyncratic variation on it, no two alike.

thrown_22OP3y ago

Yes, just how no two json implementations support the same schema.

lmm3y ago

Independent JSON implementations can parse and manipulate the same files, since they agree on what the basic datatypes are. S-expression implementations don't; often they don't even agree on what the quoting convention is.

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