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   feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Thursday, 26-Sep-2024 22:28:36 JST feld

   • Micr0byte
   @micr0 whoever voted for XML is insane
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     Pete Wright (pete_wright@nlogic.systems)'s status on Thursday, 26-Sep-2024 22:49:20 JST Pete Wright

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     • Micr0byte
     @micr0 @feld and here I am wondering why m4 isn’t on the list
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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Thursday, 26-Sep-2024 22:51:01 JST feld

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     • Micr0byte
     @pete_wright @micr0
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     Pete Wright (pete_wright@nlogic.systems)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 00:10:24 JST Pete Wright

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     • Micr0byte
     @feld @micr0
     
     once i had a chance to talk to Eric Allman and was like "M4? why?!?" and he reminded me that back then due to hardware constraints he needed to choose a syntax that would be efficient for computers not humans. It made sense, but still didn't make me feel any better about my lost youth trying to get sendmail to sendmail.
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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 00:10:24 JST feld

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     • Micr0byte
     @pete_wright @micr0 I've never met Eric but I've met his partner Kirk and had dinner next to him at BSD conferences before.
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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 09:20:07 JST feld

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     • Micr0byte
     @brad @micr0 Not if you need an automation tool to generate the config. Now it *must* be able to parse XML to validate it
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     • Micr0byte

     @feld @micr0 xml is far better than toml or yaml (I didn’t vote for xml)