XML sucks. I believe that it is, to date, the most perfectly horrible corruption of one of the most universal and simple concepts in computer science: sexps. ZOMG! Someone screwed up sexps! Let that one sink in. What a thing to say! How in the world would one even propose to screw up such a […]
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JSON and YAML: Not a pair that fits every foot (but XML sucks)
It is good to reflect on exactly how hard a problem it is to define a consistent cross-platform data representation. Most of the time (especially on the web) we just shovel data around, let things be inconsistent, avoid conflicts by pretending they don’t happen, and carry a general disregard to data consistently. This attitude is, […]