On 2012.07.18. 15:45, Matija Grabnar wrote:
> On 07/18/2012 03:08 PM, Leo Bicknell wrote:
>> To that end, if RIPE could produce a template/example in a few popular
>> languages (perl, python, ruby, php) to download the JSON and parse into
>> the native language data structure that could get a LOT more folks using
>> the data...
>>
>
> You can fins a bunch of decoders in more languages than I count on
> http://www.json.org/

Hi,

It's really nice to see the community in action :-) It is a rather
encouraging sign to us!

To answer Leo's original question from a different perspective: the result
data you get from Atlas is a structured piece of information. We had to
choose a specific encoding, and we opted for JSON (as opposed to YAML, XML,
etc.) because in many cases that can be directly used in client side
applications. We *could* supply other formats too, but no matter what the
encoding is, you need some kind of client library to parse it.