Re:The Rule of Silence (2006)
by TheCoelacanth on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @09:49AM
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For the best of both worlds, why not something that is both text and structured, like JSON or sexps?
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Re:The Rule of Silence (2006)
by willismichael on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @10:18AM
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Yes! I don't know how many times I've had to learn yet another one-off configuration syntax, logging format, or template language and wondered why oh why doesn't this use s-expressions (or even json?)... I fail to understand why the same people who are so allergic to lisp-like syntax will happily work on some project that makes you context switch between about a dozen different syntaxes once you count in all of the configuration, templating, and expression languages, some of which are embedded in string literals with absolutely no tooling or syntax highlighting.