Agreed - really folks, it's not going to be the end of the world if you use JSON for your configuration. Or XML. Or comma delimited text files. As long as yo

Agreed - really folks, it's not going to be the end of the world if you use JSON for your configuration. Or XML. Or comma delimited text files. As long as you agree to it and you have it documented somewhere, I promise your codebase won't suddenly set on fire because of it. Now, if you add programmability to your configuration files... that is asking for someone to abuse it and turn a simple configuration file into an abomination. I've definitely seen that happen.