On 8/26/2014 4:53 AM, eles wrote:
On Tuesday, 26 August 2014 at 07:12:40 UTC, ponce wrote:
- SDL is _whitespace sensitive_
I don't like this.
That's somewhat misleading.
More accurately, SDL is newline-delimited (with backslash line
continuation). That's pretty darn simple and has an age-old history.
It's not like we're talking weird Python/JavaScript rules or anything here.
The only thing that does trip people up is that the existence of { and }
in the syntax makes people think "C-family and therefore freeform". And
then it isn't, so that makes them angry. "Yeeargh! Hulk Not Want!"
Well...or something vaguely sorta kinda like that ;)
- JSON has no comments, also trailing commas are disallowed
To me, these are not very bad limitations. Yes, I would like comments,
but I could leave without, especially if fields have meaningful names.
Personally, I find those, along with the syntax noise, to be the three
core pillars of JSON pain.
- XML is XML. I find it actually OK.
I would support this. Yes, is verbose, we know that. But is a very solid
foundation.
XML is the spawn of satan. And not the cool "rock n roll", "heavy metal"
kind of satan, or the bumbling lovable DBZ "Mr. 'Hercule' Satan" either,
but the "hey, let's write a commercial webserver in shell scripts" kind
of raw pulsating evil.
