Am 27.08.2014 10:02, schrieb Kagamin:
On Wednesday, 27 August 2014 at 02:24:46 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
That's somewhat misleading.
More accurately, SDL is newline-delimited (with backslash line
continuation). That's pretty darn simple and has an age-old history.
It's not like we're talking weird Python/JavaScript rules or anything
here.
The only thing that does trip people up is that the existence of { and
} in the syntax makes people think "C-family and therefore freeform".
And then it isn't, so that makes them angry. "Yeeargh! Hulk Not Want!"
Well...or something vaguely sorta kinda like that ;)
That's justified, because SDL fails to not surprise. Curly brace
syntaxes are not line-delimited not requires backslash line continuations.
Like JavaScript for example?
- XML is XML. I find it actually OK.
I would support this. Yes, is verbose, we know that. But is a very solid
foundation.
XML is the spawn of satan. And not the cool "rock n roll", "heavy
metal" kind of satan, or the bumbling lovable DBZ "Mr. 'Hercule'
Satan" either, but the "hey, let's write a commercial webserver in
shell scripts" kind of raw pulsating evil.
What's wrong with XML? I work with it daily and see no problem. The less
syntax a language has, the worse it scales, and if it doesn't scale, its
adoption creates a technical debt. 100 lines with 3 levels of nesting
and JSON becomes hard to follow and TOML becomes simply unmanageable.
The reason to search for an additional format is to make it more
convenient and readable for human interaction. XML wouldn't structurally
a bad choice, but is awful because of it's syntactical overhead.
