On 24 April 2012 12:53, Stéphane Ducasse <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi Igor, >> >> It is pretty clear that JSON is slowly replacing even XML elsewhere and >> if I for instance have to chose between XML and JSON, I'd certainly >> choose later. Our chunk format is, well, ours only. VW is using XML, >> others are using anything else. > > In a really really bad way. Because the tags are used in a non sense way. > You still have to parse method to get the selector :) So VW is far from > an example. And we are not talking about the method format, just method > metadata. > >> Something as neutral and as simple as >> JSON-based format can therefore become a bridge even between us. >> >> JSON is now becoming defacto standard for any interoperability scenario >> in cloud world, so IMO Dale did a right decision to choose it. We will >> be much closer to other words with Smalltalk that way > > Not at all. Do you really think that somebody will be interested by Smalltalk > just because > metadata of methods are stored in JSON :) > Come on.
yeah. lets store our metadata in SQL syntax.. so we are closer to SQL databases.. LOL :) > >> and even more by >> using GitHub for code repository. > > > -- Best regards, Igor Stasenko.
