On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 1:02 PM, Michael Kay <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > I agree with your ideals (1 and 2 above) too but it should be evident > from the sociology of the JSON community that these things are not going to > happen. You have people putting stuff in JSON databases without thinking > how are we going to get it out and coming up with half-assed solutions for > doing so. This is not progress and this is not good. > > JSON wasn’t designed for databases any more than XML was. Both were > designed for messages. XML at least was designed for long-life messages, > while JSON was designed for throwaway messages. > > > I think XML is a bit more useful than that. It's a natural fit for data scraped from the web and if you buy into the tools it has a value as a staging format because it is easily convertible.
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