Re: YAML and its parsers

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From: demerphq
Subject: Re: YAML and its parsers
Date: 16:20 on 23 Jun 2006
On 6/23/06, A. Pagaltzis <pagaltzis@xxx.xx> wrote:
> * Simon Wistow <simon@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx> [2006-06-23 15:40]:
> > WT and might I also add F?
>
> Ah, one of my favourite hates. I've noted this elsewhere: the
> YAML spec is more complex than the XML 1.0 spec. 'Nuff said.
>
> I prefer JSON for light amounts of structured data. The syntax is
> far clunkier, but I feel much more at ease putting my trust into
> a format that can be specified exhaustively on a single page. If
> worst comes to worst, I know I can write a reasonably robust
> parser for it with finite effort.
>
> You know the clich=E9d anecdote about how the US space programme
> spent millions of dollars creating a pen that can write upside
> down and underwater when they discovered that normals pens don't
> work in zero G, and the Russians just used pencils?

Grease pencils actually. One wouldnt want little bits of graphite
floating around the capsule now would you?

Yves

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