Non Sucking YAML parser

Robin Berjon robin.berjon at expway.fr
Wed Sep 13 17:39:22 BST 2006


On Sep 13, 2006, at 18:26, David Cantrell wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 01:49:46PM +0200, Robin Berjon wrote:
>> On Sep 13, 2006, at 12:28, Dirk Koopman wrote:
>>> I suspect he has the same problems with xml as many of us:
>>> * the signal to noise ratio of xml is way too low.
>> If that's a problem for you, you're better off shipping C structs
>> around than even using YAML or JSON.
>
> I presume the OP was looking for something portable.  Using C structs
> isn't at all portable.  Different compilers on the same machine might
> pack the same struct differently.  And don't even think about  
> trying to
> get data from one machine to another with different word lengths and
> endianness.

Yeah, that was a joke...

-- 
Robin Berjon
    Senior Research Scientist
    Expway, http://expway.com/




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