[Catalyst] YAML vs. *

[Matt S Trout]

Wade.Stuart at fallon.com wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> Ok I will bite,  I fail to see how anyone that has used perl for any period
> of time does not know how to parse and write YAML. It was designed to be
> human readable for non coders -- so even non perl coders should be able to
> gain the concept quickly (without needed to understand how the data is
> stashed
> when it is loaded.  Any other config format we would use would be hard
> pressed
> to match YAML for those two points.

I can parse and write YAML fine. But it's damn easy to typo, the parsing 
errors are generally useless or nonexistant and while it might be *readable* 
for non-programmers it sure as hell isn't easily writeable for them. INI and 
apache-style both definitely win out on that by a big margin based on my 
experience of clients.

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