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John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> Thu, 13 June 2013 21:37 UTC

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Carsten Bormann scripsit:

> The JSON data interchange format has no use if it is floating in
> the air.  It must have both feet firmly on the ground, in concrete
> syntax, in bits and bytes.

A concrete syntax in characters only is not useless.  Essentially all
programming languages are defined only in characters, and rightly so.
Even for special cases like JavaScript, it's sensible to define the
repertoire used by the language, but not the encoding(s) of the language.

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