Re: Code donations for RPGUI initiative

[Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>]

I was just in touch with Douglas this past week and he has now added the RPG
JSON parser to his www.json.org website :-)  (do a search for RPG on the
home page).

I must admit that I was taken with XML when it first came out about 10 years
ago.  After working with it for close to that amount of time I am convinced
it is bloated and in most cases should ONLY be used when you don't control
both ends of the spectrum.

I will have to check out that book, thanks for mentioning it Loyd!

Aaron Bartell
www.SoftwareSavesLives.com

On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Loyd Goodbar <loyd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Check the book _Coders at Work_ by Peter Seibel. There's a chapter
> interviewing Douglas Crockford, inventor of JSON, created for the very
> reasons you mention. Douglas is a proponent of simple(r) solutions.
>
> "Crockford: [...] Like when XML was proposed as a data-interchange format,
> my first impression of that was, 'My god, this is way, way, way too
> complicated. We don't need all of this stuff just to move data back and
> forth.' And so I proposed another way to do it, and it won. JSON is now the
> preferred way of doing data transfer in Ajax applications and it's winning
> in a whole lot of other applications. And it's just really simple." pp. 125
>
> --Loyd