WOW Your Mother, I've been blessed twice, in one day. I've got goose-bumps. :)

Seriously. I really appreciate your concise, well justified argument for JSON, and friends.

I'm not going the Dancer, Catalyst approach (in the near future, anyways). But would still be a reasonably small effort, if need/want be. OTOH I can easily see why JSON vs XML == JSON. As I mentioned, only too many times already. I'm a BIG fan of UTF-8. Frankly, that's reason enough. But your other well articulated reasons, only further my wish to now choose JSON.

Mind you, my initial resitance to Dancer, Cata...,{...}, is because I've become all too well aquainted with Apache, and Apache-like servers. So habits (good|bad) are really hard to break. Further; I come from a Function, Routine flow, where programming -- esp. Perl, is concerned. So while I'm no novice, JSON is going to be a bit of a learning-curve, for me. I hate OO, and all it pretends to be. Could a worse name have ever been conceived? Define Object, I double-dog dare you. Nobody, and Everybody is an OO expert, the whole topic, can not be accurately defined -- too nebulous. That's my NotSoHumbleOpinion. But Perl, and mostly where Modules are concerned; is going by way of OO. So I'll just roll with it. But, for the record, it's going to be a struggle. :P

Thank you very much, Your Mother. For a perfectly worderful evaluation. Much appreciated.

--Chris