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There’s a corollary in there to Greenspun’s tenth.

Any sufficiently complicated serialization technology contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of ASN.1.

Name "JSON" would be weird, because it wouldn't be JavaScript-compatible syntax anymore. I know, that few people would agree with me, but I would propose `new Date(2020, 2, 17, 17, 22, 45)` syntax, even if nobody uses `eval` to parse JSON, keeping historical heritage is important. And if you need timezone, something like `Date.parse("2011-10-10T14:48:00.000+09:00")` could be used. Now it's not a real constructor or function calls, it's just a syntax, but it's still compatible with JavaScript.

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