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Overview on human-readable configuration file formats

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Human Readable Formats

• INI - Initialization File: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INI_file
• TOML - Tom's Obvious Minimal Language: https://toml.io
• XML - Extensible Markup Language: https://www.w3.org/XML
  • MicroXML: https://web.archive.org/web/20130608052654/http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/x-microxml1/index.html
• YAML - YAML Ain't Markup Language : https://yaml.org
  • Strict YAML - https://hitchdev.com/strictyaml
• JSON - JavaScript Object Notation: https://www.json.org
• CSON - CoffeeScript Object Notation: https://github.com/bevry/cson
• MSON - Markdown Syntax for Object Notation: https://github.com/apiaryio/mson
• AXON - AXON is eXtended Object Notation: https://pyaxon.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
• OGDL - Ordered Graph Data Language: https://ogdl.org
• .properties: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.properties
• ConfigObj: https://configobj.readthedocs.io/en/latest/configobj.html#the-config-file-format

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