From: pharrington <xenogenesis@...>
Date: 2009-07-30T23:50:08+09:00
Subject: Re: How Come Ruby is Text-Oriented?

On Jul 30, 10:11 am, Brian Candler <b.cand...@pobox.com> wrote:
> Ian Hobson wrote:
> > There was one attempt at a language that plugged together data flow
> > pipes. I can no longer remember the name.
>
> Fantastic. That would let you store all programs as graphs, which could
> be serialised as big blobs of XML for ultimate portability. Programming
> could then become as simple as this:

But if we're going to the point of serializing the program as XML, why
not take the next logical step on simplify the XML in S expressions?
Wait..