P.S. Also it is a 'mini-language' because it is an ad-hoc design that is good enough and can be easily implemented for a given problem. This is oppose to a general purpose solution like XML that is one translation from the original data format and carries too much baggages.
> Just consider you don't have to enter two quotes for every string object > is almost liberating. These quotes are only artifacts for structured > data format. The idea to design a format convenient for human and let > code to parse and built the data structure. > > wy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
