[actionfromafar]

Definitely. And often, it's the right call, or the thing wouldn't generate any business value (such as money) at all in a reasonable time.

But boy, how messy spaghetti don't we get for it, sometimes.

(Invent their own, badly, at first. Sigh.)

[PaulHoule]

I dunno, I remember the holy trinity of $, % and @ sigils in Perl as my first exposure to JSON-like objects which are the real world's answer to S-Expressions because they address the nameless tuple problem

https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/1186940/Lisps-Mysteriou...