Post 893203 by digitalbaboon@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #889873 by fribbledom@mastodon.social
       2018-10-31T22:35:37Z
       
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       "XML is a classic political compromise: it balances the needs of man and machine by being equally unreadable to both"-- Matthew Might
       
 (DIR) Post #889952 by fribbledom@mastodon.social
       2018-10-31T22:38:18Z
       
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       In other words: XML combines the efficiency of text files with the readability of binary files...
       
 (DIR) Post #890034 by QBFreak@mhz.social
       2018-10-31T22:41:27Z
       
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       @fribbledom https://xkcd.com/927/
       
 (DIR) Post #890166 by alva@mastodon.social
       2018-10-31T22:46:38Z
       
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       @fribbledom"Centrism?In my computer?"It's more likely than you think!
       
 (DIR) Post #890207 by eject@enby.club
       2018-10-31T22:48:30Z
       
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       @fribbledom I hope I'm not speaking out of turn here, but it seems to me that you don't quite like XML.
       
 (DIR) Post #890250 by fribbledom@mastodon.social
       2018-10-31T22:50:12Z
       
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       @ejectActually, I like it in the same sense that I really do like C++. Both are incredibly powerful, but also spiraled a bit out of control.
       
 (DIR) Post #892938 by 61@en.osm.town
       2018-11-01T01:17:06Z
       
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       @fribbledomBelieve it not, at one point we thought #xml was a good idea. Then #json came along with its utter lack of structure and we all felt pretty stupid. 😒
       
 (DIR) Post #893203 by digitalbaboon@mastodon.social
       2018-11-01T01:31:22Z
       
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       @fribbledom haha was not expecting to do a loud laugh blurp type sound when scrolling my feed, but here we are.
       
 (DIR) Post #893248 by fribbledom@mastodon.social
       2018-11-01T01:34:48Z
       
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       @61 No worries, I'm sure twenty years from now I'll say the same kind of things about JSON, TOML, YAML and half a dozen other *ONs and *MLs 😂
       
 (DIR) Post #893439 by 61@en.osm.town
       2018-11-01T01:46:31Z
       
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       @fribbledomNot so sure. #json is sort of like #csv, something so simple that little can go wrong with it. Yeah, they both got lots of limitations and are academically awful. But as is said of #ethernet, they work better in practice than in theory.It's the simple ideas that tend to stick around.Btw, big fan of #yaml too! 😊
       
 (DIR) Post #896935 by Tryphon@mastodon.social
       2018-11-01T06:52:55Z
       
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       @fribbledom @eject I am using utf8 text with the ASCII characters 0x1c 0x1d 0x1e and 0x1f as separators (File Separator, Group Separator, Record Separator, Unit Separator), which gives me s-expressions with 4 levels of nesting. Beat that!
       
 (DIR) Post #899783 by robelix@chaos.social
       2018-11-01T10:48:20Z
       
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       @fribbledom There is a programming language called Java that is used to convert unreadable xml into unreadable stack traces.
       
 (DIR) Post #950026 by js@mstdn.io
       2018-11-03T20:16:14Z
       
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       @robelix @fribbledom Ah, Enterprise Java with Enterprise XML 😉