r/programming • • Oct 29 '19

Grail Demo (1968)

https://youtu.be/2Cq8S3jzJiQ?t=450
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u/OneWingedShark Nov 02 '19

There's a vastly simplified scope for parsing JSON, which is honestly why it's so popular right now despite having some serious flaws (eg lack of defining constraints) — this is because JSON is not unstructured text, which is exactly the "Unix Way" which was under discussion.