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From: https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/sml-dev/conversations/messages/4729

On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 03:39:53PM -0000, jimfl@... wrote:
| This looks very similar to the format of the Perl module
Data::Denter
| (by Brian Ingerson) for which there is already a fine parser
available
| (in perl, of course).

Thank you so much for taking the time to
read YAML! I like the reference to Denter
and I e-mailed Brian Ingerson. Although,
Denter differs from YAML in a few ways:

1. YAML uses whitespace folding, allowing
for cleaner control of margins and
indenting. Denter uses a <<EOV
mechansim which I find ugly, well,
perhaps too Perlish for my Pythonic
tastes.

2. I'm writing YAML in C with Python glue.
Someone can write Perl glue for it
if they'd like; Denter seems to be
written in Perl.

3. YAML allows rfc822 headers, this
is important to allow a flexible
method for processing instructions
and encoding/version specifiers.

4. YAML has a neat mechanism for references
that work on sub-trees. I didn't quite
grok Denter's mechanism.

5. It has a formal information model, soon
a formal grammer, and a sequential
access API in C.

6. Denter looks a tad bit more complicated.

7. I like YAML's syntax better; although
I'm waiting to hear what Brian has
to say, he could change my mind.

Thank you so much for the reference.

Clark