From: Pat Hayes (phayes@ai.uwf.edu)
Date: 10/12/01
>With all apologies to John McCarthy, who should know better, this statement >is at best misleading, and at worst dangerously wrong. > > [[[ ... XML is isomorphic to the subset of Lisp data > where the first item in a list is required to be atomic. ]]] > -- 1998: Advice for XML, W3 and ICE > http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/cbcl2/node4.html > Fri, 07 May 1999 20:56:22 GMT > >(I'm couching the differences below in terms of XML Infoset, as that is the >smallest reasonable definition of what is in an XML document.) > >Lisp data is not just (standard) lists or ordered trees. Lisp data can be >circular in many ways. John may have intended "pure Lisp", ie Sexpressions that can be defined using recursion but without setq. Pat -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- IHMC (850)434 8903 home 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola, FL 32501 (850)202 4440 fax phayes@ai.uwf.edu http://www.coginst.uwf.edu/~phayes
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