[Info-vax] Security, support and VMS, was: Re: A new VMS?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 5/4/2021 2:39 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 5/4/2021 2:13 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> On 2021-05-04, Simon Clubley 
>> <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
>>> On 2021-05-04, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>>>> On 5/4/2021 1:41 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>>>> Configuration file libraries are available for all
>>>>> the modern languages also on VMS. But given how
>>>>> much VMS code is still in Cobol/Pascal/Basic/Fortran/C
>>>>> then a builtin native library may be nice to have.
>>>>
>>>> Which of course would start WW III between the
>>>> XML people, the JSON people and the YAML people.
>>>
>>> JSON is better than XML IMHO. I just find it a lot easier to work with.
>>>
>>> As for YAML, I've just read up about it and it looks like it was
>>> created by the same people who created INTERCAL.
>>
>> Clarification: I don't mean that the INTERCAL authors literally created
>> YAML which is what the above could imply. I meant it looks about as user
>> friendly as INTERCAL.
> 
> YAML is actually quite popular for config files today.
> 
> :-)

Which of the below are most readable?

XML:

<abc>
   <ab>
     <a>1</a>
     <b>2</b>
   </ab>
   <c>3</c>
</abc>

JSON:

{ "ab": {
     "a": 1,
     "b": 2
   },
   "c" : 3
}

YAML:

ab:
   a: 1
   b: 2
c: 3

Arne