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I don't think XML has been 'trendy' for ages :) XML is totally fine for storing structured dumb data. Don't program in XML. I would not be so bullish about im
by fsloth 6y ago
I don't think XML has been 'trendy' for ages :)
XML is totally fine for storing structured dumb data. Don't program in XML.
I would not be so bullish about implementing your own interpreter - as the best obvious choice every time.
Numbers especially are hard to get correct unless you know what you are doing.
- justinmeiners 6y agoI don't think this user is advocating using home grown interpreters. Rather it's easy to understand how they work completely. The point is complex configurations tend to grow into a poor programming language. They would be far better as a lisp DSL.
- peppery-idiot 6y agoPretty much everything in CI is driven by YAML or JSON or YAML string as a value in a JSON property and they uniformly suck. So I think GP is correct.