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XML::Simple for Perl Developers
An anonymous reader writes "XML has become pervasive in the computing world and is buried more and more deeply into modern applications and operating systems. It's imperative for the Perl programmer to develop a good understanding of how to use it. In a surprisingly large number of cases, you only need one tool to integrate XML into a Perl application, XML::Simple. This article tells you where to get it, how to use it, and where to go next."
As true as that may be, I have never heard of any other language be referred to as a "write only language".
Love sees no species.
"Leverage the power of XML" by deprecating it wherever you can for a more sensible cross platform format.
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1. Advocate XML deprecation.
2. Use XML style conversation markers.
3. ???
4. Profit!!!
gack!
"that's not encryption - it's a new perl script that I'm working on..." - from some Matrix parody
(*) unless the question is, "What is the worst format to store configuration data in?" :)
I can think of worse. How about a flat namespace populated with pairs of the form (name, number). After that list, you can have a giant (about 2^19940 bytes long) of 8 byte values, related to the pairs as follows: the key with name 'pair' has the value stored in the M(number)th bin, where M is the Mersenne Twister function.
XML::Gay