Why rule out XML? It's one of the few widely-used
language groups
that actually sorta meets both those requirements (*fairly* simple and
*somewhat* human-readable). ;-)
Reactions to XML can be as strong as your feelings about C++ :)
Personally, I am fan of both of them, but I don't think that forcing
the use of one of the many XML parsing libraries into a LADSPA
application is a good thing. I think that Steve's simple tuple scheme
can be parsed very easily in C code without any fun and games, and the
file is human readable if not instantly understandable.
--p