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Let me cite you json.org: > JSON is a text format json.org is owned by Douglas Crockford, who should know what JSON is, since he was the first to specify that
by espadrine 11y ago
Let me cite you json.org:
> JSON is a text format
json.org is owned by Douglas Crockford, who should know what JSON is, since he was the first to specify that format.
- nailer 11y agoAgreed, but nobody uses it without parsing it. You're not grepping JSON, you're JSON.parse() ing it.
- espadrine 11y agoWhy does it matter whether the exchange format is a regular or a context-free language? It is a textual representation of binary data either way. Sure, it is harder to pattern-match context-free, and we have a convenient syntax for textual regular languages, but we create tools such as jq so that we can pipe JSON and extract data.