Thursday, May 12, 2005

Programming languages with native XML inline syntax

E4X
http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-357.htm
This is very cool. It has more benefits than allowing for simpler syntax. Imagine being able to specify that the XML block must meet a certain schema. Smart IDEs like IntelliJ could go wild with this if it could know that. Tab completion and all that. I think it could lead to XML syntax-izing other languages like say SQL or even and LDAP query. Wow! WOW! I dare say it would be a new plateau in programming.

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