On 10-11-26 4:04 PM, Stephen Nuchia wrote:
From: Denis Shevchenko [mailto:for.dshevchenko@gmail.com] Is there any interest in a library for configuration file parsing?
Having done this once, just before TCL was announced, I won't ever do it again. Ousterhout's reasoning is, in my opinion, unassailable. Configuration files might as well be written in a full-featured, widely-understood embedded scripting language.
http://www.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/papers/tcl-usenix.pdf
That would be Python now, right?
I've switched to using Python for configuration files. Among other things, the main benefit is that it allows the user to do weird crap you never thought of and never need to think of. It's good being able to say yes to nearly every request in relation to configuration files without writing more code :-) But why stop at configuration files? Application extensions can also be written in Python. -- Sohail Somani -- iBlog : http://uint32t.blogspot.com iTweet: http://twitter.com/somanisoftware iCode : http://bitbucket.org/cheez