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Re: If not JSON, what then ?

"Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Tue, 02 August 2016 20:29 UTC

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In message <D7E6606E-AC13-4767-AD73-28C2E91EC67D@mnot.net>, Mark Nottingham wri
tes:

>If containers are only allowed to contain simple types, the need for a
>schema language diminishes quite a bit; headers can be defined pretty
>easily in prose, perhaps with references to registries where
>appropriate.

It is not significantly harder to specify recursive structures than
flat structures, but of course the work to do so will make many
people want not to.

As for the praise for prose, yes, it is amazing what you can do if
you are Hemmingway, Prachett, Jefferson or Adams, but most of us
are not.

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