> a nice, simple, sane, universal configuration file format (S-expressions) In particular, this bit from the article sounds like hand-rolled, informally-specif

> a nice, simple, sane, universal configuration file format (S-expressions) In particular, this bit from the article sounds like hand-rolled, informally-specified canonical S-expressions[0]: > It is recommended to bring the record into ‘normalized’ form (i.e. all objects should contain their fields sorted alphabetically by their key) before storing it there, though this is not required nor enforced. It really is true that those who do not understand Lisp are doomed to reinvent it. 0: https://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/Sexp.txt https://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/Sexp.txt