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I'm not a lisper, but this makes me pine for some universal, maybe lisp-like language. It's a total waste of time to learn a new config syntax for each applicat
by m0th87 12y ago
I'm not a lisper, but this makes me pine for some universal, maybe lisp-like language. It's a total waste of time to learn a new config syntax for each application.
- gjggkjasdf 12y agothe ironic thing here is that Lispers fucking love sticking new DSLs wherever they possibly can. And I imagine most developers of these pet config files would argue the same thing. Unfortunately. It was Microsoft of the 1990s that surprisingly brought some sanity to the table, with INI files. I'm glad tools like Git use this format.
- ams6110 12y agoThen they threw sanity out the window with the registry.
- throwaway2048 12y agoThis is getting pretty offtopic, but this is what GNU has tried to do with guile https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Guile https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Guile
- catwell 12y agoLua is often used for that purpose. It is not a Lisp but it fulfills this role well enough.