Re: [Json] Differences between RFC 4627 or the current ECMAScript specification

John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> Wed, 02 October 2013 20:52 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Json] Differences between RFC 4627 or the current ECMAScript specification
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Tim Bray scripsit:

> Does it matter in the slightest to anyone on the planet what it was
> derived from?

Did the etymology of "XML" matter to anyone?  Yet there it is.

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