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by junke 1947 days ago
> Like JSON, they are easy to parse and easy to generate, but being more loosely-specified than JSON, ...

They would not have been loosely-specified if they were specified, like JSON was :-) I mean this is taking things a bit backward. When tools use a data format based on S-exprs, they define more clearly what is or isn't valid (OCaml Dune, Guix, etc.)