ini files are 1. a straw man. The Format is very generic, only sections and key-value-pairs. A fairer comparison would be against httpd.conf, or other language

ini files are 1. a straw man. The Format is very generic, only sections and key-value-pairs. A fairer comparison would be against httpd.conf, or other languages actually used for web server config. 2. Easy to parse, because there are tony of implementations already. 3. Static, like a SQL database, although Zed[1] and others[2] argued we need Turing-complete extension and configuration languages like Ruby. [1] http://vimeo.com/2723800 http://vimeo.com/2723800 [2] http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3606 http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3606