Can't find a source for it now, but one of the design goals of JSON iirc was that it should be easy to parse. You should have a go at writing a JSON parser to

Can't find a source for it now, but one of the design goals of JSON iirc was that it should be easy to parse. You should have a go at writing a JSON parser to convince yourself it isn't hard. Can manually lex it in less than 150 lines of Python.