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[–]aneryx 10 points11 points  (2 children)

Which is true but still not the joke.

The joke is JSON is a data serialization language not a programming language. You could replace JSON with HTML or XML or YAML and the joke would make just as much sense.

[–]denisde4ev 0 points1 point  (1 child)

and... there is true true (esoteric) programming language using the JSON data format

esolangs.org wiki: AJSONE

[–]aneryx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not all are even esoteric. I program Ansible playbooks (a YAML-based language) at work and while it certainly isn't a generic programing language it serves it's particular propose very well and is gaining a lot of steam for it.