XML overuse? (was Re: Python to XML to Python conversion)

[Christopher Browne]

Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw when Paul Rubin <phr-n2002b at NOSPAMnightsong.com> would write:
> Christopher Browne <cbbrowne at acm.org> writes:
>> I think the widespread lemming-rush to try to get _everything_ mapped
>> onto XML-based formats is a demonstration that a whole lot of people
>> have never even _looked at_ Lex and Yacc.
>> ...
>> (reverse (concatenate 'string "moc.enworbbc@" "enworbbc"))
>
> Or Lisp... ;-)

Sure.  But in that it's atypical for people to be terribly accepting
of languages options that don't look a whopping lot like C, I'll go
with "something related to C."

Perhaps they should look at Baker's META or ASN.1, but that _does_ get
pretty abtruse pretty quickly, and who has heard of them?

Yacc and Lex provide nice formal ways to describe grammars, can work
with the "Langues-du-jour," and it would be very instructive to see
that they _are_ usable for building parsers for small languages.
-- 
(reverse (concatenate 'string "moc.enworbbc@" "enworbbc"))
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