On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Konstantin Boudnik <[email protected]> wrote:
> (some clearly provocative questions) > > May I ask why dog-slow Ruby is better than a shell? ;) Especially, why it > is > better in the frame of a Java-based stack? > Speed is hardly an issue for a startup script; ease of representing configuration state is. Surely you are not proposing to write the startup code in Java? ;) > > Also, I'd like to comment on the topic of the YAML, which sucks badly as > any > other generalized serialization formats (circa SGML) compare to DSLs:) > Right tool for the job. YAML is a perfectly good way to store configuration data for many applications. Here's an idea: how about we encode all these environment variables in a single XML file? :-) > Cos > Cheers, Jos -- Jos Backus jos at catnook.com
