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". :)
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