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Why is JSON so popular? Developers want out of the syntax business

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Re: Why is JSON so popular? Developers want out of the syntax business

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Post by euroclydon »

There are so many cool things you can do with JSON. I just created a boolean logical statement builder on a web page by using free form open and close parenthesis, and and/or radio buttons. A little regex to change the parenthesis into square brackets, then an eval(), and I can walk the whole statement recursively.

Re: Why is JSON so popular? Developers want out of the syntax business

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Post by pilif »

stanleydrew wrote: post #5

Well JSON also lets you get around browsers' same-domain policy without having to set up a proxy, which I think might be more important.

if you are talking about JSONp: JSON is by no means required to do that. You could in theory easily pass a string containing XML to the callback function.

Re: Why is JSON so popular? Developers want out of the syntax business

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Post by pilif »

patio11 wrote: post #6
anamax wrote: post #4

As one of the earlier commenters pointed out, lisp welcomes you to the 1960s.

Sorry we were late to the party, guys, we just got so wrapped up in writing software that people actually use.

... while the lispers where still counting the closing parens needed to finally get their code running

SCNR

Re: Why is JSON so popular? Developers want out of the syntax business

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Post by stcredzero »

pilif wrote: post #9
patio11 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry we were late to the party, guys, we just got so wrapped up in writing software that people actually use.

... while the lispers where still counting the closing parens needed to finally get their code running SCNR

Only the ones too clueless to use Emacs or another editor that does it for you.
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