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- proper noun computing A
retronym for YAML Ain't Markup Language that meant originally Yet Another Markup Language
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And of course, even the 1.0 specification of YAML didn't use #YAML: 1.0, it specifies the use of "\% YAML: 1.0" (which is of course different to the current "final draft").
Planet Perl 2009
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We can also see that META. yml is based on the "1.0" (which, of course, was basically an "final draft alpha") specification of YAML, which is now deprecated to the point of being basically useless.
Planet Perl 2009
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Essentially, use HTTP as your RPC transport mechanism, REST as your architecture, and data representations such as YAML or JSON, rather than anything more heavyweight or, worse still, inventing your own RPC mechanisms.
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Ideally, the format of every block apart from raw data blocks should be in some introspectible format, such as YAML, so that it's easy to enumerate every reference to another block within them, without explicit knowledge of all the types and their encodings, in order to simplify the recursive unlink strategy I describe later, and so that integrity checkers that follow the tree making sure the reference counts are correct can be easily and reliably implemented.
Snell-Pym » A stressful upgrade - and a design for a better backup system 2008
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I'm sure there was a bit of "why not use YAML?" with regards to the settings.py and cheers to it remaining in Python.
March 2009 2009
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If you insist on fighting against XML namespaces, you might as well be using YAML or JSON.
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And so after a brief spurt of buzzword-driven development, XML as a data interchange format fell away to things like JSON and YAML; while, as usual, people in the LISP world have been using s-expressions for code and data since the 1950s.
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I'm sure there was a bit of "why not use YAML?" with regards to the settings.py and cheers to it remaining in Python.
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I'm sure there was a bit of "why not use YAML?" with regards to the settings.py and cheers to it remaining in Python.
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It is comparable with other text-based serialization languages such as JSON and YAML
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