[Oisf-wg-configuration_language] please do not write our own parser

[Frank Knobbe]

On Tue, 2009-09-22 at 18:12 +0800, Jeff Dickey wrote:
> [...] YAML is successful even though it’s yet another config language
> because it adds value over and above the traditional alternatives –
> binary bit soup, INI files or XML. Other successful projects that
> solve common problems can, almost universally, say the same thing.

Since we're tossing coins, here are my 2 cents :)

I prefer to write my own parser so that a) I'm not subject to bugs in
someone else's code, and b) I can use a style that is closer to English
language than machine language :)  I find it horrible that we have to
adopt strange, complex syntax schemes just to tell a friggin' computer
what to do. I very much prefer something simple like the English
language. No squiggly's left and right and before sentences and after
sentences, and different stuff around paragraphs, etc.

Maybe I'm old fashion, but computers are supposed to make our lives
easier. So should be configuring computers. If I want something not to
be blocked, I say "dontblock 1.2.3.4", not <dontblock>1.2.3.4</>  :)

Cheers,
Frank

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