Re:YAML: probably not so great after all (2017)
by clarkevans on Thursday June 21, 2018 @07:37PM
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> "JSON didn't exist because Us and We"?
If you define JSON as the underlying practice that Crawford later named and documented, then sure, what I wrote reads completely wrong headed. However, when we were working on YAML, JSON was not yet called out and given a name.
I believe the most important convention that YAML and JSON shared was a recognition of the typed map/list/scalar model used by modern languages. Further, as far as conventions go, I think there's quite a bit to be said about languages that use light-weight structural markers such as: indentation, colon and dash.
If you define JSON as the underlying practice that Crawford later named and documented, then sure, what I wrote reads completely wrong headed. However, when we were working on YAML, JSON was not yet called out and given a name.
I believe the most important convention that YAML and JSON shared was a recognition of the typed map/list/scalar model used by modern languages. Further, as far as conventions go, I think there's quite a bit to be said about languages that use light-weight structural markers such as: indentation, colon and dash.