On Wednesday, September 11, 2013 11:04:37 H. S. Teoh wrote: > On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 01:24:38PM -0400, Jonathan M Davis wrote: > > On Wednesday, September 11, 2013 16:11:10 John Colvin wrote: > > > Why not YAML? It's cleaner than JSON and is very widely known. > > > > YAML is just plain evil. It doesn't ignore whitespace. > > [...] > > It's funny. I used to think Python is evil for the same reason,
Well, I hate that about python too, but what I _really_ hate about python is that it's dynamic. It shouldn't be possible to do things like change the type of a variable based on whether an if condition was true or not (or change the type of a variable at all for that matter). I use python at work when I need to use a scripting language, because it's the best option that I have there, but otherwise, I'd just use D. > But I've never used YAML, so I can't say whether or not I'd like it. JSON is a subset of YAML 1.2, so they're very similar. Probably the most obvious differences are that you don't need as many quotes in YAML, and whitespace matters. I've had to deal with it some at work, and I hope to never have to deal with it elsewhere. - Jonathan M Davis
