Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote: > > Don't get me started. XML is not a language. It's a serialization >=20 > And XML was exactly why I asked about *programming* languages. XML > just doesn't qualify in any way I can think of as a language. oh, come on. in what way is "Python source code" more expressive than XML, if you don't have anything that inter- prets it? does the Python parser create "better" trees than an XML parser? > XML, as you point out, is a syntactic aspect of tree encoding. just like a Python source file is a syntactic aspect of a Python (parse) tree encoding, right? ;-) ... but back to the real issue -- the point is that XML provides a mechanism for going from an external representation to an in- ternal (unicode) token stream, and that mechanism is good enough for python source code. why invent yet another python-specific wheel? </F>
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