Re: YAML and its parsers

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* 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 clichéd 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?

When it comes to technology, I'm very much a Russian.

Regards,
-- 
Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>;

• YAML and its parsers Simon Wistow 14:35 on 23 Jun 2006
  • Re: YAML and its parsers Anton Berezin 14:53 on 23 Jun 2006
  • A. Pagaltzis 16:14 on 23 Jun 2006
    • demerphq 16:20 on 23 Jun 2006
    • Chris Devers 22:33 on 23 Jun 2006
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    • peter (Peter da Silva) 13:58 on 24 Jun 2006

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