Re: Help Needed
Robin Berjon <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.lang.perl.xml |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Mar 21, 2009, at 03:49 , Liam Quin wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 08:55:19AM -0400, pDale wrote:
>> While this should be off-topic (not about XML), let us take this
>> opportunity
>> to say again, just in case anyone doesn't know:
>>
>> Do not use XML files for program configuration!
>
> Let's not say such silly things.
No! Let's!
I think the issue is largely that XML is pretty bad as a configuration
syntax, but the alternatives are at best just as bad. It's donkeys all
the way down. Configuration is overrated anyway, if it worked on the
developer's computer there's no reason other can't use the same setup.
--
Robin Berjon - http://berjon.com/
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