From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2004-11-24T12:47:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Marshal vs. YAML vs. something else (Re: Most popular wiki in Ruby seeks kind maintainer)

On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 12:30:11 +0900, John Wilger <johnwilger@gmail.com> wrote:
> What's wrong with good old fashined XML? Isn't this sort of thing what
> XML was designed for?

The biggest problem with XML is verbosity and impedance mismatch with
Ruby objects for Marshal-ing.

-austin
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