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by IanCal
4702 days ago
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You can use a screwdriver as a hammer all you want, it's not going to make it a good idea. This isn't a free speech issue. > Further, if JSON was really only data, then it's an incredibly stupid way to store data, given that it has a human-readable syntax that the computer can only deal with after it's been parsed. As data, it's bloated and inefficient. So use something else. Also, a computer can only read any file after it's been parsed in some way. I'm not really sure what you're suggesting as an alternative. > To the extent that JSON is a good format, it's code Is it executable? Is it turing complete? |
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It represents groups of more-less arbitrary tokens as trees, therefore it's a natural format for code representation as it's equivalent to an AST, therefore it's trivial to attach a basic execution context with if and lambda defined, and now it's executable and turing-complete.