INI files are cool, IMO [1]. Though they may have originated in Windows or DOS, other tech uses them too nowadays (and from long, of course). Some languages mus

INI files are cool, IMO [1]. Though they may have originated in Windows or DOS, other tech uses them too nowadays (and from long, of course). Some languages must have support for INI files in their standard or 3rd-party libraries. I know Python does, in the ConfigParser module. In fact, I'm currently using it in a project I'm working on for a client. [1] I think they are cool because of their simplicity - it is just a two-level hierarchy - sections and options within sections. And options are key-value pairs. For many applications, this is enough, and any format that supports more may be overkill (though would still work). Edited to add the [1] footnote.