Before we implement SDL package format for DUB

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On Wednesday, 27 August 2014 at 02:24:46 UTC, Nick Sabalausky 
wrote:
> That's somewhat misleading.
>
> More accurately, SDL is newline-delimited (with backslash line 
> continuation). That's pretty darn simple and has an age-old 
> history. It's not like we're talking weird Python/JavaScript 
> rules or anything here.
>
> The only thing that does trip people up is that the existence 
> of { and } in the syntax makes people think "C-family and 
> therefore freeform". And then it isn't, so that makes them 
> angry. "Yeeargh! Hulk Not Want!" Well...or something vaguely 
> sorta kinda like that ;)

That's justified, because SDL fails to not surprise. Curly brace 
syntaxes are not line-delimited not requires backslash line 
continuations.

>>> - XML is XML. I find it actually OK.
>>
>> I would support this. Yes, is verbose, we know that. But is a 
>> very solid
>> foundation.
>>
>
> XML is the spawn of satan. And not the cool "rock n roll", 
> "heavy metal" kind of satan, or the bumbling lovable DBZ "Mr. 
> 'Hercule' Satan" either, but the "hey, let's write a commercial 
> webserver in shell scripts" kind of raw pulsating evil.

What's wrong with XML? I work with it daily and see no problem. 
The less syntax a language has, the worse it scales, and if it 
doesn't scale, its adoption creates a technical debt. 100 lines 
with 3 levels of nesting and JSON becomes hard to follow and TOML 
becomes simply unmanageable.