XML is great because while most config formats compromise on either being human-readable or machine-readable, XML solves this problem by being utterly incomprehensible to man and machine alike 😍
Is xml really that unreadable for machines? I enjoy xml as a format, because I can generally just convert it to an s-expression and easily manipulate it as a tree.
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Problem -> NullPointerException.
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BeansandAbstractFactoryFactoryExactly. And configured by 5000 lines of brittle XML.
But you repeat yourself.
XML is great because while most config formats compromise on either being human-readable or machine-readable, XML solves this problem by being utterly incomprehensible to man and machine alike 😍
Is xml really that unreadable for machines? I enjoy xml as a format, because I can generally just convert it to an s-expression and easily manipulate it as a tree.
And then it throws a NullPointerException.
No internal logging framework/facade used!
Great! The problem is lost in the memory. That means it doesn’t exist anymore right? Right?