On 9 Apr 2000, Russ Allbery wrote:
> I understand the theory, and it makes sense from the perspective of making
> it C-like, but like I said having to put the semicolons in there and
> realizing that they're not part of the value, escaping semicolons where
> necessary, and so forth I've found to be confusing to non-programmers who
> are trying to work with those configuration files. C programmers don't
> have a problem for the most part, but a lot of folks who aren't C
> programmers have to edit the config files.
>
> It doesn't matter as much for a /proc format, since there are very few
> writers and the average user only has to read.
That's just it ... average joe should never have to read this directly,
only programmers. Users would see it via some parser that outputs the
stuff in some kind of other format. Some text or XML or whatever.
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