Java, Android, XML

Does it irk other people as much as me that we are expected to read & write XML in order to build and run programs? What ever happened to real configuration files? How about editing tools for XML? Did half the world forget that XML is intended for machines, not humans? I always get a bit annoyed when I see end user documentation telling humans to edit XML. Sure, sometimes the tools come later, but quite often not, or they eat up 200 MB of RAM and require a GUI to edit a 30 line configuration file. EOR.

— by Robert Thomson, created 22nd Jul, 2008, last modified 5th Aug, 2008 | 1 comment | Tags: Tech

1 comment:

Ycros on 22nd Jul, 2008, 16:30: I agree, I hate this as well. XML is great for moving data around between programs, but I don't think it should be used for configuration files at all.

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