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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: S-expression I/O in Ada
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On Mon, 02 Aug 2010 09:17:15 +0200, Georg Bauhaus wrote:

> On 8/1/10 11:13 PM, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> 
>>> I use S-expression as a sort of universal text-based container, just
>>> like most people use XML these days,
>>
>> These wonder me too. I see no need in text-based containers for binary
>> data. Binary data aren't supposed to be read by people, they read texts.
>> And conversely the machine shall not read texts, it has no idea of good
>> literature...
> 
> The whole idea of machine readable Ada source text is silly, right?

Right.

1. Ada sources are read by the compiler.

2. Sources need not to be text file based. Compare it with the word
processor, an application the whole purpose of which is to produce texts,
that aren't text-based... (:-))

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Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de