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Paul J Collins sneakums at eircom.net
Mon Jul 31 14:28:27 PDT 2000


>>>>> "Monkey" == Monkey Master <monkeymaster at crackmonkey.org> writes:

    Monkey> begin  Paul J Collins quotation:
    Monkey> Hell, I'd pick the samba INI files before I'd go with XML.
    Monkey> Scheeeit!
    >> 
    >> I wouldn't.  Only one level of nesting.

    Monkey> That never stopped regular expressions from being the shiznit.

Regular expressions are not under consideration for use as a
structured configuration file format.  How could they be, since they
are a type of grammar?

Samba's format is, and it lacks enough structure for some uses.
Proplists on the other hand, have plenty of structure.

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