Robin Berjon wrote: > But as someone that also had to parse other people's random > formats before we had XML, I would like to stress strongly the fact that > the current situation is *much* better than it was.
True, but you're also missing the point that XML is a festering pile of steaming camel turds that has been over-designed and over-engineered by committee for 4 decades and still isn't any closer to being pleasant or easy to use. Convergence is good, unless you're converging in a bad place. Now all our markup is verbose, difficult to parse, memory hungry, tiresome to manipulate, and so on, (unless you're using YAML of course). XML is Yet Another Silver Bullet Bandwagon that we all jumped on because the XML software vendors told us to. Anyway, this isn't the time or place for an anti-XML rant. Suffice it to say that at least one of us is hoping that we can do markup better in Perl 6. A
