On Wednesday, 27 August 2014 at 02:24:46 UTC, Nick Sabalausky
wrote:
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 ;)
That's justified, because SDL fails to not surprise. Curly brace
syntaxes are not line-delimited not requires backslash line
continuations.
- 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.
What's wrong with XML? I work with it daily and see no problem.
The less syntax a language has, the worse it scales, and if it
doesn't scale, its adoption creates a technical debt. 100 lines
with 3 levels of nesting and JSON becomes hard to follow and TOML
becomes simply unmanageable.
