[bug-recutils] Re: GNU recutils 1.0 released

[Jose E. Marchesi]

Hi Thomas.

    > - A texinfo manual, describing the Rec format and the accompaying
    >   software.
    
    I only had a quick look at the manual, but I wondered how your new format
    is fundamentally different / better comparing to established ones, like
    YAML, <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YAML>?  I think it'd help to put such
    a comparison into the manual, too.

YAML is much more complex than the rec format.  In rec there is only one
data structure: the record.  It does not try to map the commonly found
data structures in programming languages, and it is not designed to be a
"data serialization language".  The rec specification is designed to
make it easy to write recfiles by hand and to maintain them, without
having to remember a lot of syntactical rules.

I will add a note in the manual about this.  Thanks for the note :)

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