OT: Programmers whos first language is not English

[Anders J. Munch]

"Stephen Horne" <intentionally at blank.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> Of course XML isn't a friendly language either, but the programmer
> looking at his editor is not supposed to see XML.

In that case the storage format is an implementation detail.  Whether
you represent a token sequence in one structured text format (XML) 
or another (the kind that the tokenize module recognises) shouldn't
matter much.  Except that the second form is compatible with what
everybody else uses.

- Anders