> Problem: Could it be made simpler to parse from scripting languages,
> without making it less elegant to parse in plain C ?
Yes. At one point, somebody suggested XML. Now, as much as I hate the fact
that people somehow equate high-tech with tags, I think whomever originally
suggested it might be on to something. :)
Fact is, just about EVERY language out there has some sort of utility to
parse XML. There's expat for C, Perl and Python have libs, etc. We could
even write a proc DTD that could specify the valid data types.
There are two problems:
1. Performance - it's slower to go through a library that outputs XML than
do a printf("%d", pid) or the like.
2. Space - based on a little experience using XML as a transport, the space
used by the tags adds up.
3. Work - writing a good package to do this, and rewriting bits of the
kernel to use it. I'll volunteer my time.
Just a thought,
Craig
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