Polyglot configuration
Usually, we turn towards polyglot programming when we want to create an application that is more flexible and more configurable. Applications that get installed in many instances, usually, at different customer sites have some configurations. These configurations can be XML files, properties files, and INI files (those come from Windows). As the programs develop sooner or later, these static configuration possibilities reach their limits. Application developers soon see that they need to configure some functionality that is cumbersome to describe using these technologies. Configuration files start being larger and, also, the code that reads and interprets the configuration files grow large. Good developers have to realize ...
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