Unix is not an acceptable Unix

Re:Unix is not an acceptable Unix by throwawaykf05 on Sunday June 07, 2015 @01:51PM (#9675623)

JSON is not a textual format. What it is, is right there in the name: It's an Object Notation. Now, JSON objects are most frequently serialized to text, but they are still objects. The format is an orthogonal matter.

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Re:Unix is not an acceptable Unix by espadrine on Monday June 08, 2015 @06:30AM (#9678152)

Let me cite you json.org:

> JSON is a text format

json.org is owned by Douglas Crockford, who should know what JSON is, since he was the first to specify that format.

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Re:Unix is not an acceptable Unix by nailer on Monday June 08, 2015 @09:52AM (#9679003)

Agreed, but nobody uses it without parsing it. You're not grepping JSON, you're JSON.parse() ing it.

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Re:Unix is not an acceptable Unix by espadrine on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @02:32AM (#9684365)

Why does it matter whether the exchange format is a regular or a context-free language? It is a textual representation of binary data either way.

Sure, it is harder to pattern-match context-free, and we have a convenient syntax for textual regular languages, but we create tools such as jq so that we can pipe JSON and extract data.

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Re:Unix is not an acceptable Unix by icebraining on Monday June 08, 2015 @04:44AM (#9677888)

The "notation" part is the serialization. JSON is a "system of written symbols used to represent" objects.

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