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A comment on Why JSON Isn’t A Good Configuration Language (2018).

Re:Why JSON Isn’t A Good Configuration Language (2018) by princevegeta89 on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @08:55PM (#31661948)
JSON is not a language it's just a format.
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Re:Why JSON Isn’t A Good Configuration Language (2018) by rfiat on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @09:05PM (#31662038)
I disagree. It has a formal grammar so at least in a CS sense [0] it's a language. Why is JSON not a language but e.g. TOML or YAML are?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_language

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