From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Sun Mar 14 2004 - 19:08:32 MST
That a language can map into XML and is arguably a good language does
not give weight to the reverse proposition that an XML-based
programming language per se will be a huge advance.
- s
On Mar 14, 2004, at 5:40 PM, Ben Goertzel wrote:
>
> Samantha Atkins wrote:
>> A well-accepted XML-based programming language
>> will be a
>>> HUGE
>>> increase to the existing infrastructure.
>>>
>>
>> No, it will not. It will be an abomination if it every gets off the
>> ground.
>
> Take a look at Refal, www.refal.org, which is incomparably more elegant
> than LISP, and has a syntax that can naturally map into XML as a
> special
> case...
>
> Refal does not have nice libraries and optimizing compilers etc. like
> LISP, however.
>
> -- Ben G
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