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

[Dave Froble]

On 5/4/2021 2:58 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 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
>
>

In my opinion, none of them.  I recognize the XML because I've had to 
work with it.  The other 2 make no sense to me, most likely because I've 
never seen them.

Perhaps:

$ a:==1
$ b:==2
$ C:==3

??

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