* Andy Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-08-18 17:35]: > I prefer JSON aesthetically apart from any technical > considerations. I don't actually find YAML all that > readable. To programmers' eyes JSON looks more like > code - presumably because it is :)
YAML requires less quoting and backslashing. As a user of a language that lets me pick my own delimiters for strings, regexes, etc, I appreciate this. I do find YAML painful to write and much prefer JSON in that discipline. In fact I prefer it in nearly every discipline. The only situation where I like YAML better is when the contents of a data structure have to be printed in skimmable form and the data structure shape itself is not particularly important, only its contents. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
