YAML (http://www.yaml.org) comes to mind, though I think JSON is a much bigger improvement over XML than YAML is over JSON.
I don't know any Clojure, but I guess it's for the same reason why if lst: # do something with lst is preferred to if len(lst) > 0: # do something with lst in Python. It becomes more obvious when you use descriptive…
I agree with most of your sentiments, but no new books and no new frameworks isn't completely true. For example, I just started reading Coding in Delphi (https://leanpub.com/codingindelphi) which describes a few current…
YAML (http://www.yaml.org) comes to mind, though I think JSON is a much bigger improvement over XML than YAML is over JSON.
I don't know any Clojure, but I guess it's for the same reason why if lst: # do something with lst is preferred to if len(lst) > 0: # do something with lst in Python. It becomes more obvious when you use descriptive…
I agree with most of your sentiments, but no new books and no new frameworks isn't completely true. For example, I just started reading Coding in Delphi (https://leanpub.com/codingindelphi) which describes a few current…