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I was just in touch with Douglas this past week and he has now added the RPG
JSON parser to his www.json.org website :-) (do a search for RPG on the
home page).

I must admit that I was taken with XML when it first came out about 10 years
ago. After working with it for close to that amount of time I am convinced
it is bloated and in most cases should ONLY be used when you don't control
both ends of the spectrum.

I will have to check out that book, thanks for mentioning it Loyd!

Aaron Bartell
www.SoftwareSavesLives.com

On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Loyd Goodbar <loyd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Check the book _Coders at Work_ by Peter Seibel. There's a chapter
interviewing Douglas Crockford, inventor of JSON, created for the very
reasons you mention. Douglas is a proponent of simple(r) solutions.

"Crockford: [...] Like when XML was proposed as a data-interchange format,
my first impression of that was, 'My god, this is way, way, way too
complicated. We don't need all of this stuff just to move data back and
forth.' And so I proposed another way to do it, and it won. JSON is now the
preferred way of doing data transfer in Ajax applications and it's winning
in a whole lot of other applications. And it's just really simple." pp. 125

--Loyd

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