On Oct 4, 2011, at 7:21 PM, Mark van Dijk wrote:

>> Forgive me for top-posting, but I am so excited by discussion of new
>> configuration file formats I just had to.
>> 
>> I see discussion of JSON, XML, and I feel I must also suggest Sumerian
>> Cuneiform. Cuneiform is exceedingly compact and not vulnerable to
>> inadvertent or erroneous changes:
>> http://salenacastro7.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/cuneiform.jpg
>> 
>> That says: "mark all outgoing traffic with diffserv to make it go fast
>> on teh Internet".
> 
> 
> Nice, I totally stepped into this one.
> 
> So many applications have odd names nowadays, so "cuneiform"
> didn't even sound so bad. Well, maybe the 'Sumerian' bit did raise my
> eyebrow just enough to get me to click. They are *so* elite. I think
> they initially used cuneiform to write BSD, later in history.
> 
> Tom, please do build in support for this format, I think it might be
> the Next Cool Thing™. Heck, maybe I'll even buy a shirt that says "I
> write my configs in cuneiform". :)



…Tom searches CPAN for a cuneiform module, thinking about:

BEGIN CUNEIFORM(Semarian);
<Semarian cuneiform here>
END CUNEIFORM;


Tom Eastep        \ When I die, I want to go like my Grandfather who
Shoreline,         \ died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like
Washington, USA     \ all of the passengers in his car
http://shorewall.net \________________________________________________



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