From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,80b3e504140e89fd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-06-19 18:37:53 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!news-hog.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!nntp-relay.ihug.net!ihug.co.nz!cox.net!p02!news2.east.cox.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3D1131B6.30103@telepath.com> From: Ted Dennison User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Config_Files proposal References: <4519e058.0206190708.2ef205e4@posting.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 01:37:53 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.12.51.201 X-Complaints-To: abuse@cox.net X-Trace: news2.east.cox.net 1024537073 68.12.51.201 (Wed, 19 Jun 2002 21:37:53 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 21:37:53 EDT Organization: Cox Communications Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:26450 Date: 2002-06-20T01:37:53+00:00 List-Id: Stephen Leake wrote: > I went with the choice between Java and XML because there was > definitely consensus on multi-level keys (rules out ini), and I felt > there was sufficient complaint about "complex syntax" to rule out X > style. That's a good point. The X style does look like a real pain to parse. It'd probably be nearly as tough as the XML style to explain over the phone too.