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		seanconaty on Oct 11, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: ECMA-404: The JSON Data Interchange Format [pdf] What's so awesome about JSON? Its standard documentation is 5 pages. So simple, so awesome.

fleetfox on Oct 11, 2013 | [–]

It's not XML

tel on Oct 12, 2013 | | [–]

XML has its time and place. I'm currently doing medical data processing and I'm really glad it's XML instead of JSON.

oneeyedpigeon on Oct 11, 2013 | [–]

And a lot of that's fluff (the rails diagrams, boilerplate); you could probably fit it quite comfortably on 1 side of A4 / US letter.

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