Re: Future of LISP. Alternative to XML. Web 3.0?

From: "Juan R." <juanrgonzal...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
(XML:)
<section>
<title>Introduction to LISP</title>
<para>In this section, we will see the formal properties of
S-EXPR...</para>
...
</section>

becomes

(section
(title "Introduction to LISP")
(para "In this section, we will see the formal properties of
S-EXPR...")
...
)

Yes. I've advocated something like that for quite some time. Except
I'm more interested in directly replacing XML&RMI for distributed
computing, rather than directly replacing HTML for Web pages.
Unfortunately I never knew anyone else interested in the same idea
willing to work with me to develop distributed computing (over HTTP
initially) based on this notation for structured-data messages.

It seems to me we need to think of some useful service that
somebody might want to use, and then implement it with s-expr
instead of XML representation for queries and responses. Then we
can decide the precise s-expressions to be involved, and then write
a demonstration server, and use a regular Web browser to test it
remotely. Do you have any good ideas of such first services to
offer as demos?
.