Re: [Yaml-core] Question to Oren, Clark or Brian

[Brian I. <in...@tt...>]

On 25/08/02 21:39 +0200, Armin Roehrl wrote:
> from http://www.yaml.org/about.html
> >Oren and Clark's vision for YAML  was very similar to Brian's Data::Denter, 
> >and vice versa, thus a few days later they teamed up and YAML was born.
> How did you find out that about each other's work and finally
> team up? 

I'm not sure who tipped Clark off to Data::Denter. IIRC, Denter was
less than two months old. I designed Denter mostly for human editable
configs and caches. As I started working on it, I realized that I could
turn it into a fully functional serialization language. To me it was
like CSV on steroids.

Denter is in many ways close to modern YAML. It has all the basic
features, but it was definitely just for Perl. YAML has a cleaner
syntax, stronger semantic model, and takes on the issues of many
programming languages in a somewhat elegant and sublime fashion. I will
soon deprecate the Data::Denter project and strongly suggest that its
users switch to YAML.

Clark saw the parallelism to early YAML and contacted me by email. That
same day we talked on the phone for a couple hours. I liked Clark's
ideas and enthusiasm. I told him I would join. A couple days later we
started the sourceforge mailing list, and have been working on nearly a
daily basis since.

It is hard to stress enough what a magical relationship Clark, Oren and
I have. The sum is greater than the parts. We almost never agree on any
issue completely. We fight back and forth until something acceptable is
reached. If any two people agree strongly, the third will (almost
distrustingly) object. It's eerie, almost like a gravitational field
that both attracts and repels simultaneously. It really works out in the
end though. There's a lot of respect between us.
     
>  
> Do you have any plans to submit YAML to the W3C?
> What is the process of doing sth. like that?
> Would it be killing the fast evolution of YAML?