Reply to post: Re: Makes me pine for the days of XML...

Behold, the world's most popular programming language – and it is...wait, er, YAML?!?

Long John Brass

Re: Makes me pine for the days of XML...

The problem is not XML per se; The issue was that every bell end and his mutt, trying to use it for things it was never a good fit for; Case in point config files. Yes I'm looking at you SUN.

Transferring data between complex systems in a machine portable fashion, yes. As a config file for ${foo}? oh dear god no :(

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