-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Apr 05, 2018 at 09:14:51PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> UUIC that's partly why it's finally losing popularity and being replaced > >> with json for that use. I'm not familiar enough with json to know if > >> it's really a good replacement, but it does look like an improvement. > > that is simply not true. > > Did you read the text to which I was responding? Because your reply > does not seem to contradict mine: I was talking about uses of XML for > "data serialization".
Exactly. And that's the "misunderstanding" part I was talking about. XML was intended as a document serialization language (as was SGML). As such, it's passable, although (by far!) not pretty. It has been misused as a data serialization language, and that's the problem. Now JSON *is* a much better data serialization language (it does have its problems, mind you: among other things having "integers" and not telling you whether there's a max int or what happens when you pass that possible limit). The JSON folks don't help, in that they stubbornly talk about a JSON "document" and pit "JSON vs XML". They are different beasts. Try writing your next letter in JSON to see what I mean (this is more directed at deloptes: you, Stefan and me are in violent agreement, I think). Cheers - -- tomás -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlrHGU8ACgkQBcgs9XrR2kYGXwCfYGe5n5NBhoCeH/VMJ/WSmPNN kacAnjGk/KjRr+/0tkVz79ra0rPFbefq =RJ22 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
