On: Jid – Drill down JSON data incrementally

[paulddraper]

> not close to or identical to any programming language other than Lisp.

It's close to the Lisps, Scheme, Racket, Clojure, and many others.

You are correct that the popularity of Ruby, Python, and JavaScript has eclipsed the popularity of these languages, and so the popularity of JSON has eclipsed that of s-expressions.

[ubernostrum → paulddraper]

Scheme, Racket and Clojure are all Lisp-family languages if not arguably Lisps in and of themselves.

[paulddraper → ubernostrum]

By that token, JavaScript and PHP are C-family languages

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_C-family_programming_l...

I don't see where checkbox ticking will get us.

[ubernostrum → paulddraper]

They are C-family languages.

It should be unsurprising that languages which have adopted Lisp's syntax/programming model to a larger degree will also naturally find Lisp's syntax/programming model to work for them, while languages that haven't... won't.

[paulddraper → ubernostrum]

Agreed.