I'm not seeing how JSON is much more readable than Perl
Readability is a matter of personal preference.
I use
JSON::XS extensively, mainly because it's a text-only human-readable format that is also
platform and programming language independent (as pointed out by
others). Using JSON I can easily create interfaces that (at least in theory) can be used to inter-operate with programs written in Non-Perl.
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