Re: [boost] Library for configuration file parsing

Subject: Re: [boost] Library for configuration file parsing
From: Stephen Nuchia (snuchia_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-11-26 16:04:32

>> From: Denis Shevchenko [mailto:for.dshevchenko_at_[hidden]] 
>> Is there any interest in a library for configuration file parsing?

Having done this once, just before TCL was announced, I won't ever do it
again.  Ousterhout's reasoning is, in my opinion, unassailable.
Configuration files might as well be written in a full-featured,
widely-understood embedded scripting language.

http://www.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/papers/tcl-usenix.pdf

That would be Python now, right?