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1 AristotlePagaltzis 1 [JSON | http://www.json.org/] is an [Acronym] for JavaScript __O__bject __N__otation.
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3 LawrenceDoliveiro 3 A [serialization|Serialisation] format for nested DataStructure~s that uses a tiny subset of JavaScript syntax: the shorthand notations for objects and arrays.
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5 For some applications such as messaging, it has been gaining in favour of more complex notations such as [XML] and [YAML] because it has very low syntax overhead and is truly trivial to parse. As such, it is particularly well-suited for passing data among programs written in different languages (the common scenario being a server-side application written in [Perl], [Python] or [Ruby] communicating with an [AJAX]ified JavaScript client).