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Sean McGrath: Spot the warning signs in configuration file design ["Put the extra power of programming language-based parameter files into your application. Then see how the parameterization works out in practice. You can work back from there if necessary. For example, I like to use Python syntax for parameterization from the get-go. If I need to, I will write a parser for whatever subset of Python my application ends up using in the real world. But I wait for real-world experience using the application to tell me what that subset is. I don't try to second-guess it."]