On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 03:46PM, Jos Backus wrote: > On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Konstantin Boudnik <[email protected]> wrote: > > > (some clearly provocative questions) > > > > May I ask why dog-slow Ruby is better than a shell? ;) Especially, why it > > is > > better in the frame of a Java-based stack? > > > > Speed is hardly an issue for a startup script; ease of representing > configuration state is. Surely you are not proposing to write the startup > code in Java? ;)
Close, but not quite. I had Groovy in mind, actually. That also gives you the advantage of doing your own DSLs if you need to e.g. code as config and all that jazz. > > Also, I'd like to comment on the topic of the YAML, which sucks badly as > > any > > other generalized serialization formats (circa SGML) compare to DSLs:) > > > > Right tool for the job. YAML is a perfectly good way to store configuration > data for many applications. > > Here's an idea: how about we encode all these environment variables in a > single XML file? :-) That'd be a kick, I am sure ;) Cos
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