On Mar 1, 2010, at 3:08 PM, Paul Rubin wrote:
Patrick Maupin <pmau...@gmail.com> writes:
One of my complaints. If you had read the document you would have
seen others. I actually have several complaints about YAML, but I
tried to write a cogent summary.
Yaml sucks, but seems to have gotten some traction regardless.
Therefore the Python principle of "there should be one and only one
obvious way to do it" says: don't try to replace the existing thing if
your new thing is only slightly better. Just deal with the existing
thing's imperfections or make improvements to it. If you can make a
really powerful case that your new thing is 1000x better than the old
thing, that's different, but I don't think we're seeing that here.
Also, XML is used for pretty much everything in the Java world. It
sucks too, but it is highly standardized, it observably gets the job
done, there are tons of structure editors for it, etc. Frankly
I'd rather have stayed with it than deal with Yaml.
There are too many of these damn formats. We should ban all but one
of
them (I don't much care which one). And making even more of them is
not
the answer.
I dunno, times change, needs change. We must invent new tools, be
those computer languages or data formats. Otherwise we'd still be
programming in COBOL and writing fixed-length records to 12 inch
floppies.*
If Mr. Maupin was a giant corporation trying to shove a proprietary
format down our collective throats, I might object to RSON. But he's
not. He appears willing for it live or die on its merits, so I say
good luck to him. I don't want or need it, but someone else might.
Cheers
Philip
* You had floppies? Bleddy luxury! We wrote our data on wood pulp we'd
chewed ourselves and dried into paper, using drops of our own blood to
represent 1s and 0s.
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