Tony Morris

Just admit it. The only practical benefit of these "human-readable data formats" is that you can write a trivial parser for them.

@dibblego @Kludgy not true. A lot of them are quite difficult to parse, often more difficult than those which aren't "human readable"

@kisielk @Kludgy like what?

@dibblego @Kludgy trying to write a good xml parser is notoriously difficult. Ditto for unambiguous parsers for most wiki markups.

@kisielk @Kludgy Lies. Both cases are trivial.

@dibblego @kisielk @Kludgy Parsing XML to DOM may be trivial. I don't know if I should call XML Schema validation trivial.