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For the best of both worlds, why not something that is both text and structured, like JSON or sexps?
by TheCoelacanth 10y ago
For the best of both worlds, why not something that is both text and structured, like JSON or sexps?
- willismichael 10y agoYes! I don't know how many times I've had to learn yet another one-off configuration syntax, logging format, or template language and wondered why oh why doesn't this use s-expressions (or even json?)... I fail to understand why the same people who are so allergic to lisp-like syntax will happily work on some project that makes you context switch between about a dozen different syntaxes once you count in all of the configuration, templating, and expression languages, some of which are embedded in string literals with absolutely no tooling or syntax highlighting.