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20.5 Conclusion
We have presented a simple and ecient data-driven design solution for C++
projects based on the YAML data description language. This solution success-
fully meets adoption requirements both on the developers' and the artists' side by
making it easy to integrate structured and human-readable data into C++ code at
runtime.
The yaml-cpp library, on which our solution is based, can also serialize C++
classes into YAML through its emitter. This is very useful to save game states and
objects or to exchange structured objects over a network. Moreover, as YAML is a
widely adopted standard, many other languages, like Python or Ruby, have YAML
bindings and can be used to quickly develop new tools. A full list of these bindings
and supported languages can be found on YAML's website, http://yaml.org/ .
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