A.M. Kuchling wrote:
On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 18:54:50 +0100,
Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
judging from http://yaml.org/spec/current.html (750k), the YAML designers are
clearly insane. that's the most absurd software specification I've ever seen.
they
need help, not users.
IMHO that's a bit extreme. Specifications are written to be detailed, so
consequently they're torture to read. Seen the ReStructured Text spec
lately?
[...]
But YAML ... the format is now ... not really simpler than
XML and in some ways weaker (e.g. only two encodings supported, more
complicated escaping rules).
As I recall, one of the key original goals for XML was that the
parsers be relatively easy to write (relative to SGML).
Judging by that YAML spec, I can imagine that a YAML parser could
well be much more difficult to write than an XML parser would be.
Anyone have personal experience with this?
(Yes, I know people don't write parsers as often as they use
them, and that's probably some of the justification behind YAML,
but looking at that YAML spec, I find it hard to imagine I could
ever remember enough of it to write a YAML file by hand, and
yet I can and do write XML files by hand often.)
-Peter
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