[Info-vax] JSON, was: Re: First ship poll: When will the first native x86-64 compilers ship ?

[Simon Clubley]

On 2022-04-16, Richard Maher <maher_rjSPAMLESS at hotmail.com> wrote:
> I work every year with wankers that don't understand relational DBs and 
> SQL and insist on some shit like Entity Framework to try to turn a table 
> into a class(es) and other wankers that demand a "model" because they're 
> upset JSON is just a String :-(
>

But JSON isn't a string. That would be like calling a database just
a stream of bytes.

The string is just the backing store for the data held within and you
certainly do need a parser, and maybe some object model that you can
iterate through, to assign meaning to the contents of that string.

Having said that, I do think that sometimes people do go overboard in
using whatever is the fashion of the month instead of just a nice simple
parser that maybe just builds an object tree that you can iterate through
to extract the data you need.

Simon.

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