# Attention, all YAML fans

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**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [February 6, 2006, 10:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/attention-all-yaml-fans/101704 "2006-02-06T22:10:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![dvancoevorden](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@dvancoevorden](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dvancoevorden)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2006, 10:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/attention-all-yaml-fans/101704/1 "2006-02-06T22:10:27Z")

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Attention, all YAML fans! You might want to know I couldn’t bear this  
shameful  
omission, and added a YAML representation of having two cows to  
demonstrate  
just how more readable and concise it is than both XML variants on

[http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/You\_have\_two\_cows#Category\_Five:\_You\_Have\_More\_Than\_Two\_Programming\_Languages](http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/You_have_two_cows#Category_Five:_You_Have_More_Than_Two_Programming_Languages)

Feel free to make tweaks to my rather rudimentary code. The world has to  
know!

David V.  
I’m really, really sorry