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A comment on GitHub now supports TOML syntax highlighting.

Re:GitHub now supports TOML syntax highlighting by derekchiang on Monday February 25, 2013 @12:42AM (#5277502)
Can anyone tell me the motivation behind TOML? Why isn't JSON enough?
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Re:GitHub now supports TOML syntax highlighting by mmahemoff on Monday February 25, 2013 @12:46AM (#5277511)
Discussed in yesterday's thread http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5272634

The intention is to be easier for humans to read and write. Strict JSON requires a clutter of double-quotes, curly braces, parentheses and commas which have no place in a human-editable format.

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