Re: XML vs. JSON

2009-08-25 Thread Jonathan Smith
On Aug 25, 11:28 am, B Smith-Mannschott wrote: > On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 16:24, Licenser wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > I wonder what is the reason clojure uses XML standard wise and not > > JSON. In the past I've found that JSON is much cleaner to read, and > > much easier to represent data str

Re: XML vs. JSON

2009-08-25 Thread B Smith-Mannschott
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 16:24, Licenser wrote: > > Hi everyone, > I wonder what is the reason clojure uses XML standard wise and not > JSON. In the past I've found that JSON is much cleaner to read, and > much easier to represent data structures in. I know XML is a buzzword, > but JSON is on it's

Re: XML vs. JSON

2009-08-25 Thread Richard Newman
> Hi everyone, > I wonder what is the reason clojure uses XML standard wise and not > JSON. > > … > > Or do I miss something that makes it important for Clojure to be > bundled so tightly with XML? Where did you get the idea that Clojure is tightly bundled with XML? It uses XML for the build sc

Re: XML vs. JSON

2009-08-25 Thread Meikel Brandmeyer
Hi, On Aug 25, 4:24 pm, Licenser wrote: > I wonder what is the reason clojure uses XML standard wise and not > JSON. In the past I've found that JSON is much cleaner to read, and > much easier to represent data structures in. I know XML is a buzzword, > but JSON is on it's way to become one too

Re: XML vs. JSON

2009-08-25 Thread J. McConnell
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Licenser wrote: > > I wonder what is the reason clojure uses XML standard wise and not > JSON. I don't think Clojure has standardized in any way on XML. There just happens to be an XML parsing lib in Clojure proper because it's a useful thing to have. There is

XML vs. JSON

2009-08-25 Thread Licenser
Hi everyone, I wonder what is the reason clojure uses XML standard wise and not JSON. In the past I've found that JSON is much cleaner to read, and much easier to represent data structures in. I know XML is a buzzword, but JSON is on it's way to become one too. And yes I know Java uses XML extensi