On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 11:31:01AM -0500, Jack O'Quin wrote: > I'm having trouble figuring out Fons' original point here, though I'm > sure he has one. Simple and human readable are worthwhile goals, but > hard to reconcile.
Strange.. I'd think these two would go hand in hand... Whit 'simple' and 'line by line' I mean - you read in a line with fgets() - look at the first word, a keyword that tells you all about the format of the line - use sscanf() to read the rest. > Why rule out XML? It's one of the few widely-used language groups > that actually sorta meets both those requirements (*fairly* simple and > *somewhat* human-readable). ;-) *somewhat* if properly formatted and indented. And evven then it's bloated. XML was one of the reasons I gave up on Gnome. After having read the forests (a forest is a lot of trees) for weeks I still was unable to kill the file browser permanently. > The other examples that readily come to mind are even worse. LISP > appeals to me as an alternative, but that's probably not what he > wants, either. LISP is quite nice actually, but you'd need a complete LISP engine to read it... It shouldn't be that hard. All we want is a list of ports and their properties. -- FA
