> At the end of that phase, I decided I could not survive such boredom. > My solution was to invent a mini-query language, which could express the key features

> At the end of that phase, I decided I could not survive such boredom. > My solution was to invent a mini-query language, which could express the key features of each query in a YAML file. Thus, I had the excitement of developing a new expressive language, which was a genuine intellectual challenge as opposed to tedious cut-and-paste mechanics. The end result was much more pleasing to myself. ...and probably much more difficult to maintain.