clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛Re: mastodon.social/@natecull/1067…
@natecull The reason I brought up Rebol was because of this #AltScript / #ASON link that @lnxw48a1 posted the other day.
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> From Carl Sassenrath, the creator of #Rebol ( www.rebol.com/ ), which was the inspiration for #JSON ( www.json.org/json-en.html ), comes the #ASON data format and the related #Altscript ( altscript.com/ ) language.
>> ASON is what JSON was supposed to be. It provides an extended set of data-types written in a natural way, the concept of symbols (variables), a cleaner leaner syntax, machine-independent executable expressions, and lightning-fast parsting input to your favorite programming language.> Well, nothing is available for download yet, but he’s announcing that it is coming.@lnxw48a1
> From Carl Sassenrath, the creator of #Rebol ( www.rebol.com/ ), which was the inspiration for #JSON ( www.json.org/json-en.html ), comes the #ASON data format and the related #Altscript ( altscript.com/ ) language.
>> ASON is what JSON was supposed to be. It provides an extended set of data-types written in a natural way, the concept of symbols (variables), a cleaner leaner syntax, machine-independent executable expressions, and lightning-fast parsting input to your favorite programming language.> Well, nothing is available for download yet, but he’s announcing that it is coming.@lnxw48a1