[sf-perl] REST data parsing

Joe Brenner doom at kzsu.stanford.edu
Tue Sep 7 17:57:35 PDT 2010


Steve Fink <sphink at gmail.com> wrote:

> That data is JSON-formatted. Try searching with that buzzword instead.
> Warning: I haven't been terribly happy with the existing perl JSON
> libraries, but I think that's mostly because of incompatible API
> changes.

I've been using JSON lately, without any complaints (as of yet):

  http://search.cpan.org/~makamaka/JSON-2.22/lib/JSON.pm

> Why do the things whose whole raison d'etre is simplicity end up being
> the most complicated to use?

Because they're designed and implemented by people like us.



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