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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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