I guess the real mystery is why so many tech types speak like a infant having a tantrum, about some esoteric trivia, and then have hordes of their kind come and vigorously head-knod it, and all involved think virtue is being done.
People started using things like YAML, obviously, because it reads closer to natural language. It's like a nested bullet list, which everyone can easily read. Readability is important to people. It's why we don't all still write C and Perl.
So it's one thing to say "I think people should be careful about prioritizing readability over precision especially for production systems". It's another to do this narcissistic dramatic faux-incomprehension implying the markup language gained the popularity it did because everyone's stupider than you.
> I guess the real mystery is why so many tech types speak like a infant having a tantrum, about some esoteric trivia, and then have hordes of their kind come and vigorously head-knod it, and all involved think virtue is being done.
Ha, great line. And you caught me mid-tantrum and mid-head nod. :)
People started using things like YAML, obviously, because it reads closer to natural language. It's like a nested bullet list, which everyone can easily read. Readability is important to people. It's why we don't all still write C and Perl.
So it's one thing to say "I think people should be careful about prioritizing readability over precision especially for production systems". It's another to do this narcissistic dramatic faux-incomprehension implying the markup language gained the popularity it did because everyone's stupider than you.