XML, how does it work!?

How do i use it to mix C++, Java, C# & CSound?

Go.

XML
mix C++, Java, C# & CSound
Brilliant idea!

Read SICP
http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html

XML files hold data formatted by tags.

<example>
  <data>
    hello
  </data>
</example>

You can name the tags anything you want, but some programs(like CSound) only read specific names.

Programming languages that have an XML parser can load XML files.  You can program it to except any tags you want.

If you want to mix these languages and program together, you can make an XML parser in each language that uses the same tags CSound does, that way they will all be compatible with each other.

>>4
Don't feed him.

>>4
So 'write the parsers' for C++ to take Csound tags & AIML tags, and i have those languages incorperated? that doesn't seem right? too easy?

I'm not sure what you'd get if you mixed C++, Java and C#, but it sounds highly incestuous and more than a little repulsive.

>>6
It is that easy.  There are probably even parsers already written for you to use in all the languages you mentioned.  XML is a very common and widely used way of storing data.

XMLisp should be fun.

(define op/ faggot/ /define)
(map op/ (faggot /faggot) /map)

>>9
You have no idea what you're talking about. I suggest you look up the phrase ``sexp''.

>>10
sexp my anus

>>10
Sexp uses ugly ) to end list. Instead of glorius /SOMETHING)

How about a reader macro to parse any single token preceded by a slash as a comment?

>>13
/prog

>>14
Would only work if prog is a token in its own right.

>>15
This new syntax rule would render all tokens containing a / effectively invalid.

>>16
No, it wouldn't. Only existing tokens preceded by a slash would be interpreted as comments. That is, since let is valid, /let would be interpreted as a comment. But if there's nothing called dicks in scope, /dicks would still be interpreted as normal, and in no case would dicks/balls be discarded in whole or part (but assuming it was defined at some point, /dicks/balls would).