[GSoC] Machine readable output from userland utilities

[Jos Backus]

On May 23, 2014 2:15 AM, "Alfred Perlstein" <bright at mu.org> wrote
>point to note is that the intent is to have an output that is very
consumable by modern scripting languages and modules.  That would very
likely be JSON output.
>
> -Alfred

I'd actually prefer YAML output. YAML is a much more expressive superset of
JSON (YAML parsers can read JSON), but given that VHS beat out BetaMax, I
fully expect JSON to win, and YAML to fade into oblivion. Sad.

Jos