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Heh heh, "someone in power." Who would that be? There's no authority to complain to about all this... Structured text formats come and go: S-expressions, SGML

by mbrock 10y ago

Heh heh, "someone in power." Who would that be? There's no authority to complain to about all this... Structured text formats come and go: S-expressions, SGML, XML, JSON, "modified JSON", etc etc etc... Fortunately the Unix tools work the same with any byte stream, pretty much, so they've survived gloriously since the 1970s. That's kind of the whole deal with "worse is better."

TeMPOraL 10y ago
> There's no authority to complain to about all this... Whoever accepts patches to base UNIX system libraries would be a good start. > Fortunately the Unix tools work the same with any byte stream, pretty much, so they've survived gloriously since the 1970s. So would a structured text format, except you wouldn't be discarding and then recreating semantic information at every junction of a pipe.
- module0000 10y ago
  > Whoever accepts patches to base UNIX system libraries would be a good start. That can be you! Get to work, or pay someone else to get to work if the skills required aren't in your set.