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[Zenaan Harkness]

> YAML is a lot easier to write a small file by hand, but it's kinda brittle
> & easy to fuck up.  Not nearly as expressive as XML either.  Great for
> small config files; imho not so great for most other things.
>
> JSON strikes a nice balance between expressiveness and human readability.
> That's probably why REST (or if you eschew buzzwords, JSON over HTTP) is so
> popular these days.

Unfortunately JSON requires quotes around everything, which on English
keyboards requires the same <SHIFT>+<key> keypresses as XML. Might
look a little better than XML, but not a lot better for editing/
typing files...