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> I don't always want to spend insane amounts of time writing full AST parsers.

Then don't use languages whose grammars require insane amounts of effort to parse.

One can write a decent S-expression parser in an hour or two, and a full parser in a weekend. S-expressions can represent everything anyone ever needs to work with, so why use anything else?



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