What YAML engine do you use?
Doug Holton
a at b.c
Sun Jan 23 02:33:35 EST 2005
Daniel Bickett wrote:
> In my (brief) experience with YAML, it seemed like there were several
> different ways of doing things, and I saw this as one of it's failures
> (since we're all comparing it to XML). However I maintain, in spite of
> all of that, that it can easily boil down to the fact that, for
> someone who knows the most minuscule amount of HTML (a very easy thing
> to do, not to mention most people have a tiny bit of experience to
> boot), the transition to XML is painless. YAML, however, is a brand
> new format with brand new semantics.
That's true and a very good point. Like you said, that's probably the
reason XML took off, because of our familiarity with HTML.
> As for the human read-and-write-ability, I don't know about you, but I
> have no trouble whatsoever reading and writing XML.
You might like programming in XML then: http://www.meta-language.net/
:)
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