On 08/12/2011, at 6:23, Thomas Beale wrote: > out of academic interest: was either YAML or JSON around in 2000, when I made > a first version of dADL (I'm in a plane typing this, can't check)? If they > were, I look silly ;-) If not...
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON ... "JSON was used at State Software, a company co-founded by Crockford, starting around 2001. The JSON.org website was launched in 2002." And http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YAML ... "YAML was first proposed by Clark Evans in 2001 ..." Clearly you were not alone, ten years ago, in thinking that there had to be a better way than XML! - Peter
